ALEXIPHARMIC

ALEXIPH'ARMIC, adjective [Gr. to expel, and poison.]Expelling poison; antidotal; sudorific; that has the quality of expelling poison or infection by sweat.ALEXIPH'ARMIC, noun A medicine that is intended to obviate the effects of poison; an antidote to poison or infection. By the Greeks, the word was used for an amulet.

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alexipharmic|alexiteric. Alexipharmic, or Alexiteric, a. what expels poison

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{ A‐lex′i‐phar″mic (�), A‐lex′i‐phar″mic‐al (�), } a. [[Gr. � keeping off poison; � to keep off + � drug, poison: cf. F. alexipharmaque.]] (Med.) Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.