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s herb (Spilances oleracea) grown in tropical countries as a pungent salad, and also used medicinally.

A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.

A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. Dunglison.

An aromatic or medicated lozenge; a troche.

sion, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines. Madder . . . in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity. Mortimer.

A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse. Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. Sir P. Sidney. In patient, a patient who receives lodging and food, as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary. -- Out patient, one who receives advice and medicine, or…

A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.

A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.

Pertaining to the care and medical treatment of children. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

That branch of medical science which treats of the hygiene and diseases of children.

A small medicated bougie. Pencil case, a holder for pencil lead. -- Pencil flower (Bot.), an American perennial leguminous herb (Stylosanthes elatior). -- Pencil lead, a slender rod of black lead, or the like, adapted for insertion in a holder.

An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.

To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination. Flame percussed by air giveth a noise. Bacon.

A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass, designed for introduction into the vagina; a vaginal suppository.

r pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. -- Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al*ly, adv. Pharmaceutical chemistry, that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal su…

The science of preparing medicines.

That branch of pharmacology which treats of the action and the effects of medicines.

That branch of pharmacology which considers the mode of action, and the effects, of medicines. Dunglison.

That branch of pharmacology which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; -- called also pharmacography, and pharmacomathy.