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59 words match “HEALING”

HEALING a.
Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words. Here healing dews and balms abound. Keble.
HEALINGLY adv.
So as to heal or cure.
SELF-HEALING a.
Having the power or property of healing itself.
SHEALING n. 2 definitions
The outer husk, pod, or shell, as of oats, pease, etc.; sheal; shell. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
ABSCESS n.
stic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.
AESCULAPIAN a.
Pertaining to Æsculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.
ANTIPLASTIC a.
Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation.
ANTIPYROTIC a.
Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis.
BEZOARTIC; BEZOARTICAL a.
Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing. [Obs.]
CHARISM n.
A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE n.
A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases…
CICATRISIVE a.
Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.
CICATRIX n.
he pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.
CICATRIZANT n.
A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.
CONGLUTINANT a.
Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.
CONSOLIDATIVE a.
Tending or having power to consolidate; healing.
COWLEECHING n.
Healing the distemper of cows.
CURATION n.
Cure; healing. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CURE n.
Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. Past hope! pastcure! past help. Shak. I do cures to-day and to-morrow. Luke xii. 32.
EPULOTIC a.
Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment. -- n.
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