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UK
/pˈɜːɡətˌɪv/
]
NOUN
- a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
ADJECTIVE
- strongly laxative
How To Use purgative In A Sentence
- Emphasizing elimination through the overuse of purgatives in an already deficient individual can further deplete the body's store of minerals and essential B vitamins as well as imbalance beneficial intestinal micro-organisms.
- Chinese people have used it for over 2000 years as a purgative medicine, although some scientists consider it a medical enigma.
- In one year, Louis XIII received 215 doses of purgatives, 212 enemas and 47 bleedings!
- The purgative activity of RH appears to be due to rhein and the sennoside components.
- Given his mental-health problems, the loss of his girlfriend and his battle with alcoholism, it would seem he has had more than his fill of heartache; consequently The Kiss of Morning is a splenetic, purgative record.
- The thesis has also analyzed the prescription mentality purgative recipes of warm nature.
- Mystical theology is generally divided into three parts, respectively called the purgative, the illuminative, and the unitive life. The Interior Castle or The Mansions
- Bulimia nervosa can be difficult to identify because of extreme secrecy about binge eating and purgative behaviour.
- To do this, they administered purgatives and astringent gargles, prescribed cauteries and blisters on the neck and behind the ears, and on occasion even encased the whole head in plaster to dry it out. Knotted Tongues
- _Cinchona_ supplies us with quinine, while _Ipecacuanha_ produces ipecac, which is an emetic and purgative. All About Coffee