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lithagogues

lithagogues is the plural of lithagogue.

Meaning of lithagogue

Noun

lithagogue (plural lithagogues)

  1. (archaic) Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
    • seeds were formerly used as a lithagogue, or expeller of the stone in the bladder1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, “LITHOSPERMUM”, in Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia

Questions about lithagogues

What is lithagogues the plural of?
Lithagogues is the plural of lithagogue.

Words near lithagogues in the dictionary

  1. Litha
  2. lithaemia
  3. lithaemias
  4. lithaemic
  5. lithagogue
  6. lithagogues
  7. lithal
  8. lithalsa
  9. lithalsas
  10. litham
  11. lithams

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