superpurgation

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ purgation

Noun[edit]

superpurgation (plural superpurgations)

  1. excessive purgation
    • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises:
      Dr. Willis began to purge the Patient with the above-prescribed Bolus : but there happening thereupon a Superpurgation , he declined the repeating of that Purge.

References[edit]

“superpurgation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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