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rubefacients

rubefacients is the plural of rubefacient.

Meaning of rubefacient

Noun

rubefacient (plural rubefacients)

  1. A substance for topical application that produces redness of the skin, e.g. by dilating the capillaries.
    • The symptoms had diminished for a time, under the employment of rubefacients and cathartics; but the pain in the left side of the thorax returned in the evening of the 29th.1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 165

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Questions about rubefacients

What is rubefacients the plural of?
Rubefacients is the plural of rubefacient.

Words near rubefacients in the dictionary

  1. rubedinous
  2. rubedo
  3. rubee
  4. rubefacience
  5. rubefacient
  6. rubefacients
  7. rubefaction
  8. rubefactions
  9. rubefied
  10. rubefies
  11. rubefy

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