单词 | aloetic |
释义 | aloetic, a. and n.|æləʊˈɛtɪk| [f. Gr. ἀλόη aloe; by form-assoc. with diuretic, etc. but not analogous.] A. adj. 1. Med. Of the nature of aloes; having aloes as an ingredient.
1706Phillips, Aloetick, belonging to Aloes; as Aloetick Pills. 1754Smellie Midwif. I. 152 In which case all aloetic medicines ought to be avoided. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 138 A perceptible smell of aloetic drugs. 1875Wood Therap. (1879) 536 Salines, and not aloetic purgatives. 2. Chem. aloetic acid: a yellow amorphous powder, 2 C7H2N2O5·H2O, of acrid taste, forming purple-red solutions in boiling water and in alcohol.
1855Pereira Mat. Med. i. ii. 196 By the action of nitric acid on aloes [Schunk] obtained..aloetic acid. B. n. An aloetic medicine.
1706Phillips, Aloeticks, medicines that consist chiefly of Aloes. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 267 Some gross corpulent persons..will require aloetics. 1791Edin. New Disp. 527 The general purposes of aloetics. |

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