Lithagogue

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine. archaic

    "seeds were formerly used as a lithagogue, or expeller of the stone in the bladder"

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"seeds were formerly used as a lithagogue, or expeller of the stone in the bladder"

Etymology

Ancient Greek

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