ALTERATIVE
\ˈɒltəɹətˌɪv], \ˈɒltəɹətˌɪv], \ˈɒ_l_t_ə_ɹ_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]\
Definitions of ALTERATIVE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.
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A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
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Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.
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A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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An agent considered to be capable of producing a salutary change in a disease, but without exciting any sensible evacuation. As medicine improves, this uncertain class of remedies becomes, of necessity, diminished in number. See Eutrophic. (F.) Alterant. The French term likewise means, that which causes thirst,-Siticulo'sus, Dipset'icus, as alterer means both to change, and to cause thirst. S'alterer is to experience a change for the worse.
By Robley Dunglison
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