Aperient is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for APERIENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a laxative
• a drug used to relieve constipation.
• An aperient medicine or food.
• a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
• mild laxative
ADJECTIVE:
• (chiefly of a drug) used to relieve constipation.
• having a mild laxative effect
• Gently opening the bowels; laxative.
• mildly laxative
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a mild laxative

Words related to APERIENT

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Words that contain APERIENT

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How to use APERIENT in a sentence

• In this state its root is whitish, slender, and hard, with an acrid, disagreeable taste, and a strong aromatic smell, and was formerly used as an aperient.
• When the injury and swelling are not very great, warm applications, with rest, low diet, and a dose of aperient medicine, will be sufficient.
• The feverish symptoms will require aperient medicines and the fever mixture.
• This simple aperient may be repeated occasionally, say once a week, and if diarrhoea be present it may be checked by the addition of a little morphia or dilute sulphuric acid.
• Now, the only medicine I should advise you to take, is a dose of a slight aperient medicine every morning the first thing.
• When cultivated, its young tops are eaten, early in the spring, as substitutes for asparagus, being wholesome and aperient.
• It was thermal, saline, pleasant to the taste, and some, who partook of it, attributed to it an aperient quality.
• The good Scotch captain, who more than all the others had eaten of a dish in which the cook had put an aperient powder, became the victim of misplaced confidence.
• Aperient waters, abuse of in constipation, III, 326.
• The juice of its berries is aperient, without being irritating, and is well suited as a laxative for persons of delicate constitution.
• The bark is mildly aperient and causes no nausea, whilst at the same time stimulating the liver somewhat freely.
• It exercises some aperient action, and the liquid in which turnips are boiled will increase the flow of urine.
• In one case I happened to be the person to inform the physician of it, who substituted for the prescription a comparatively harmless aperient pill.

Similar words containing APERI without suffix ent

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