carminative
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin carminō (“to card, hence to cleanse”), from carmen (“a card for freeing wool or flax from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
carminative (comparative more carminative, superlative most carminative)
- (medicine) Relieving the discomfort of gas in the digestive tract, either by reducing its production (by the gut microbiota) or by inducing its expulsion (whether as belches [upper GI action] or as flatus [lower GI action]).
- Hyponym: antiflatulent
- 1635, James Guillimeau [i.e., Jacques Guillemeau], “Of Gripings and Fretting in the Belly, which Trouble Little Children”, in The Nvrsing of Children […] , London: Printed by Anne Griffin […] ; published in Child-birth, or, The Happy Delivery of VVomen […] , London: Printed by Anne Griffih […] , 1635, →OCLC, page 52:
- If too much milke be the cauſe, then the Nurſe ſhall not give the childe ſucke ſo often, nor in ſuch plenty: If it proceed from wind, and that doe cauſe the childe to be thus troubled, it ſhall be diſcuſſed with Fomentations applied to the belly and navell; and with Carminative Cliſters, which ſhall bee given him, […]
- 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 20, in Crome Yellow[1], London: Chatto & Windus, page 220:
- They used to give me cinnamon when I had a cold—quite useless, but not disagreeable. […] On the label was a list of its virtues, and among other things it was described as being in the highest degree carminative. I adored the word.
Translations[edit]
relieving discomfort of gas
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Noun[edit]
carminative (plural carminatives)
- (medicine) A drug or substance that relieves the discomfort of gas in the digestive tract, either by reducing its production (by the gut microbiota) or by inducing its expulsion (whether as belches [upper GI action] or as flatus [lower GI action]).
- Hyponym: antiflatulent
- 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 20, in Crome Yellow[2], London: Chatto & Windus, page 226:
- “A mental carminative,” said Mr. Scogan reflectively. “That's what you need.”
- 1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 9, in Lud-in-the-Mist:
- But Master Nathaniel was indifferent to these manifestations of unpopularity. Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.
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Translations[edit]
substance that induces the releasing of gas
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /kaʁ.mi.na.tiv/
- Homophone: carminatives
Adjective[edit]
carminative
Italian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
carminative
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