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AnacatharticAnacathartic An`a*ca*thar"tic, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to cleanse
upward, i. e., by vomiting; ? + ?. See Cathartic.] (Med.)
Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n. An anacathartic
medicine; an expectorant or an emetic. Cathartic
Cathartic Ca*thar"tic, Catharical Ca*thar"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?,
fr. ? to cleanse, fr. ? pure; akin to F. chaste.]
1. (Med.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by
stool; purgative.
2. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as
cathartic acid.
CatharticCathartic Ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ?.] (Med.)
A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a
purgative of moderate activity.
Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action
that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency
to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint
that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated,
and watery evacuations. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ly, adv. --
Ca*thar"tic*al*ness, n. cathartic acidcathartin ca*thar"tin, n. (Chem.)
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside
with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic
acid, and cathartina. CatharticallyCathartic Ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ?.] (Med.)
A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a
purgative of moderate activity.
Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action
that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency
to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint
that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated,
and watery evacuations. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ly, adv. --
Ca*thar"tic*al*ness, n. CatharticalnessCathartic Ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ?.] (Med.)
A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a
purgative of moderate activity.
Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action
that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency
to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint
that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated,
and watery evacuations. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ly, adv. --
Ca*thar"tic*al*ness, n. cathartincathartin ca*thar"tin, n. (Chem.)
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside
with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic
acid, and cathartina. cathartinacathartin ca*thar"tin, n. (Chem.)
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside
with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic
acid, and cathartina. Cato-catharticCato-cathartic Cat`o-ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ? down + ? serving
to purge. See Cathartic.] (Med.)
A remedy that purges by alvine discharges. Emeto-cathartic
Emeto-cathartic Em`e*to-ca*thar"tic, a. [Gr. ? vomiting + E.
cathartic.] (Med.)
Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
L catharticumPurging Pur"ging, a.
That purges; cleansing.
Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus
Linum (L. catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so called
from its use as a cathartic medicine. R catharticusRhamnus Rham"nus, n. [NL., from Gr. "ra`mnos a kind of prickly
shrub; cf. L. rhamnos.] (Bot.)
A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California
Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are
used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges. Rhamnus catharticusSap Sap, n. [AS. s[ae]p; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel.
safi; of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to
taste, to be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf.
Sapid, Sapient.]
1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending
and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to
nutrition.
Note: The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of
which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the
elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant.
2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang]
Sap ball (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus.
See Polyporus.
Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the
juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or
buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.
Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry.
Sap sucker (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small
American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus,
especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S. varius) of
the Eastern United States. They are so named because they
puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name
is loosely applied to other woodpeckers.
Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.
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