antacrid
antacrid adjective: serving to correct acridness of the humours.
Adjective
antacrid (not comparable)
- Serving to correct acridness of the humours.
- It is antacrid probably; is called a specific for the epilepsy, and all corrvulsive disorders; and commended also for vertigoes, apoplexies, pleurifies, quartans, worms, and I don't know what.1770, Charles Alston, John Hope, Lectures on the Materia Medica, page 58
- Take extract of lead, mercurial ointment, antacrid cerate , of each an equal part. Incorporate them in a mortar or on a tile.1772, Nikolai Detlef Falck, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, page 441
Noun
antacrid (plural antacrids)
- An antacrid drug.
- Antacids and antacrids select, from the mineral kingdom, exhibited per anum, vaginam et urethram, to absorb vitiated secretion .1825, “Dr, Nuttall's Lectures”, in The Lancet, page 580
Forms of antacrid
| plural | antacrids |
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Origin of antacrid
From anti- + acrid.
Questions about antacrid
- What does antacrid mean?
- Antacrid means serving to correct acridness of the humours.
- What part of speech is antacrid?
- Antacrid can be an adjective or a noun.
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