Crossword-Solution: ATTENUANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Attenuant | a. | Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent. |
| Attenuant | n. | A medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent. |
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| causing dilution or thinness, esp of the blood | 1 answer |
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Sentences with ATTENUANT (5)
With respect to its being an attenuative of viscid humours, it can never possess this virtue from being a diluent, for an attenuant acts _specially_ on the particles, by diminishing their bulk, while the diluent acts upon the whole mass of the fluid.
Indeed, the operation of an attenuant is not easily known; for many are surprised that a slight inflammation should be so difficult to dissipate.
The FRESH ROOT OF CHICORY (_ra′dix chico′rii re′cens_) is reputed to be alterative, attenuant, diuretic, febrifuge, hepatic, resolvent, and tonic; and in large doses aperient.
Let them likewise use a drink made from honey, particularly when it begins to become acid; and such wines as are gently acid, and such articles of food as are attenuant without being heating, as capers, if taken with vinegar and honey, or vinegar and oil.
When the body is fasting the hot bath is attenuant and refrigerant; for by its heat it attracts the moisture from the body, and when the flesh is deprived of moisture the body is cooled.