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hemocathartic

hemocathartic adjective: that serves to cleanse the blood.

Adjective

hemocathartic (comparative more hemocathartic, superlative most hemocathartic)

  1. (rare) That serves to cleanse the blood.
    • Apart from the fact that a hemocathartic or detoxicating influence of bloodletting has never been fully demonstrated, the suddenness of the relief afforded in uremia stamps depletion as a mechanical or physical therapeutic agent.1910, Heinrich Stern, “Bloodletting in Children”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 55, number 21, page 1783
    • As a blood treatment apparatus for the treatment of an HIV-infected disease, an external circulation apparatus composed in combination of a direct haemoperfusion column (capacity: about 335 ml) packed with cellulose acetate beads (220 g; diameter: 2 mm) and an adsorption-type haemocathartic...2002, M Adachi, Methods of treatment of disease using adsorbent carriers, US Patent 6,498,007 (PDF version)

Forms of hemocathartic

comparativemore hemocathartic
superlativemost hemocathartic
alternative formhaemocathartic

Origin of hemocathartic

From hemo- + cathartic.

Questions about hemocathartic

What does hemocathartic mean?
Hemocathartic means that serves to cleanse the blood.
What part of speech is hemocathartic?
Hemocathartic is an adjective.

Words near hemocathartic in the dictionary

  1. hemoblasts
  2. hemocapillary
  3. hemocateresis
  4. hemocateretic
  5. hemocatharsis
  6. hemocathartic
  7. hemoccult
  8. hemocel
  9. hemocels
  10. hemochomatosis
  11. hemochorial

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