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a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing.

Tending or serving to heal; healing. [Obs.] Ecclus. xv. 3.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Causing new flesh to grow; healing; regenerative. -- n.

Not in a state suitable for healing; -- said of wounds.

fensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

Healthy; salubrious; normal; having a disposition to promote healing; not noxious; as, laudable juices of the body; laudable pus. Arbuthnot.

physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing. [Written also leach.] [Archaic] Spenser. Leech, heal thyself. Wyclif (Luke iv. 23).

The art of healing; skill of a physician. [Archaic] Chaucer.

A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together. Lymph corpuscles (Anat.), finely granular nucleated cells, identical with the colorless blood corpuscles, present in the lym…

mediatory; as, a mediatorial office. -- Me`di*a*to"ri*al*ly, adv. My measures were . . . healing and mediatorial. Burke.

Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence.

In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.

Anything used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application.

Of or pertaining to medicaments or healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments. -- Med`ica*men"tal*ly, adv.

Medicinal; having the power of healing. [Obs.] Shak.

Any form of belief in mental healing other than (1) Christian Science and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude. AS a the…

An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.

The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine. "A doctor of physik." Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative. [Obs.] "Physical herbs." Sir T. North. Is Brutus sick and is it physical To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors Of the dank morning Shak. Physical astronomy, that part of astronomy which treats of the causes…