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sudorifics

sudorifics is the plural of sudorific.

Meaning of sudorific

Noun

sudorific (plural sudorifics)

  1. A medicine that produces sweating.
    • [A]s it was obſerved that acute diſtempers are ſometimes terminated by a critical ſweat, it was concluded that the moſt powerful ſudorifics were the beſt means of accompliſhing this deſirable end. This gave riſe to the deſtructive and fatal practice, which ſoon became univerſal, of adminiſtering...1770, Thomas Percival, “Essay I. The Empiric.”, in Essays Medical and Experimental on the Following Subjects, viz. I. The Empiric. II. The Dogmatic. { Or, Arguments For and Against the Use of Theory...

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Questions about sudorifics

What is sudorifics the plural of?
Sudorifics is the plural of sudorific.

Words near sudorifics in the dictionary

  1. sudoriferous gland
  2. sudoriferous glands
  3. sudorific
  4. sudorifick
  5. sudorificks
  6. sudorifics
  7. sudorimetric
  8. sudorimetry
  9. sudoriparous
  10. sudoriparous gland
  11. sudoriparous glands

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