Anacathartic :: Anacathartic (a.) Producing vomiting or expectoration.

Anacathartic :: Anacathartic (n.) An anacathartic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.

Cantharidal :: Cantharidal (a.) Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster..

Cantharides :: Cantharides (n. pl.) See Cantharis.

Cantharides :: Cantharides (pl. ) of Canthari.

Cantharidin :: Cantharidin (n.) The active principle of the cantharis, or Spanish fly, a volatile, acrid, bitter solid, crystallizing in four-sided prisms..

Cantharis :: Cantharis (n.) A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine..

Catharical :: Catharical (a.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

Catharical :: Catharical (a.) Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid..

Catharine Wheel :: Catharine wheel () See catherine wheel.

Catharist :: Catharist (n.) One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

Catharsis :: Catharsis (n.) A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc..

Cathartic :: Cathartic (a.) Alt. of Catharica.

Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

Cathartin :: Cathartin (n.) The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic acid, and cathartina..

Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

Cithara :: Cithara (n.) An ancient instrument resembling the harp.

Citharistic :: Citharistic (a.) Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara..

Colcothar :: Colcothar (n.) Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis..

Emeto-cathartic :: Emeto-cathartic (a.) Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.

Kithara :: Kithara (n.) See Cithara.

Lethargic :: Lethargic (a.) Alt. of Lethargica.

Lethargical :: Lethargical (a.) Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy..

Lethargize :: Lethargize (v. t.) To make lethargic.

Lethargized :: Lethargized (imp. & p. p.) of Lethargiz.

Lethargizing :: Lethargizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lethargiz.

Lethargy :: Lethargy (n.) Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked..

Lethargy :: Lethargy (n.) A state of inaction or indifference.

Lethargy :: Lethargy (v. t.) To lethargize.

Litharge :: Litharge (n.) Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot..

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