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fomentation

noun as in poultice

noun as in washing

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Example Sentences

A warm bath, or fomentation with warm water and Laudanum, will assist, and sometimes relieve alone.

I only wish I were that chap in the mythology with a hundred hands—and every blessed one of them in need of fomentation.

In India they make a decoction of the plant, mix it with onion juice and apply it to the head as a fomentation in hemicrania.

Warmth applied externally to the stomach by hot cloths or fomentation.

Another fomentation, a visit from the doctor, who put us all on stout, and dinner was up.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fomentation, such as: cataplasm, compress, dressing, and plaster.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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