lithagogue

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noun

Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine.

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Meanings

nounlithagogue (plural lithagogues)

plural lithagogues

  1. archaicmedicineAny medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine.

    seeds were formerly used as a lithagogue, or expeller of the stone in the bladder

    1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, “LITHOSPERMUM”, in Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia

Origin

Ancient Greek

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