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Laxative

Having a tendency to loosen or relax.

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Aperient 84% connected

Gently opening the bowels; laxative.

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Aperient 84% connected

Gently opening the bowels; laxative.

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Cathartic 84% connected

Alt. of Catharical

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Cathartic 84% connected

Alt. of Catharical

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Evacuant 84% connected

Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.

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Evacuant 84% connected

Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.

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Purgative 84% connected

Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.

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Purgative 84% connected

Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.

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Aperient 76% connected

Gently opening the bowels; laxative.

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Cathartic 76% connected

Alt. of Catharical

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Physic 76% connected

The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.

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Purgative 76% connected

Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.

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Costive 94% connected

Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

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Costive 94% connected

Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

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(medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment

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(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

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Medicinal drug noun · 85% connection

(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

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(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

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Tincture noun · 85% connection

(pharmacology) a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution

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Antidote noun · 85% connection

a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison

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Counterpoison noun · 85% connection

a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison

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Dosage noun · 85% connection

a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time

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Dose noun · 85% connection

a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time

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Anticoagulant noun · 85% connection

medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood

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Anticoagulant medication noun · 85% connection

medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood

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Decoagulant noun · 85% connection

medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood

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Acyclovir noun · 85% connection

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Alendronate noun · 85% connection

a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopause

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Allopurinol noun · 85% connection

a drug (trade name Zyloprim) used to treat gout and other conditions in which there is an excessive buildup of uric acid

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Amrinone noun · 85% connection

a drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure; increases strength of contraction of myocardium

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a medicine used to relieve pain

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Astatic adjective · 78% connection

Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astat…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tendency, loosen, relax.
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Cardiospasm noun · 78% connection

a spasm of the cardiac sphincter (between the esophagus and the stomach); if the cardiac sphincter does not relax during swallowing th…

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Cultivator noun · 78% connection

An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangu…

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Cyanogen noun · 78% connection

A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained…

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Deglutinate verb · 78% connection

To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.

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Diffusivity noun · 78% connection

Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.

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Dig verb · 78% connection

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrumen…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tendency, loosen, relax.
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Disbind verb · 78% connection

To unbind; to loosen.

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Dissolve verb · 78% connection

To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tendency, loosen, relax.
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Give verb · 78% connection

To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tendency, loosen, relax.
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Gomphiasis noun · 78% connection

A disease of the teeth, which causes them to loosen and fall out of their sockets.

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Gravity adjective · 78% connection

The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestri…

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