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adjectiveexacerbative (not comparable)
- not comparableThat causes exacerbation.
These two points being gained, nutrition is resumed for a time, to become gradually more defective until the accumulation of these two acids in the circulation brings on another exacerbative effort to expel them from the circulation.
1880, Alexander H. Davis, Improved Theory and Practice of Medicine, page 160
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