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Word: alterative
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Causing alteration. Specifically: Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. --Burton.
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Noun:
- A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
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