lithagogue

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Noun

lithagogue (plural lithagogues)

  1. (medicine, archaic) Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lithagogue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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