The act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.
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Papaverine
An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.
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Stated; prescribed; ritual.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.(pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation; "postexposur…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's im…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's im…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's im…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.capacity or power to produce a desired effect; "concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.dose too heavily; "The rock star overdosed and was found dead in his hotel room"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pharmacology.To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.
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(psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeut…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.the therapeutic use of aromatic plant extracts and essential oils in baths or massage
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much fe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger coun…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therap…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.An alkaloid existing in small quantities in opium.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.therapeutic exposure to sunlight
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the bod…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: alkaloid, found, opium, weaker, therapeutic.The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering a…
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