Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having power to check, repress, or restrain; inhibitory: applied to medicines which repress abnormal action, as astringents, styptics, and sedatives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities.
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- adjective medicine Checking
evacuations throughastringent orstyptic qualities.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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