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English
Pronunciation
Noun
antidiarrhœic (plural antidiarrhœics)
- Obsolete spelling of antidiarrheic.
1868, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon, page 157:CAA-APʹIA, Dorsteʹnia Brazilienʹsis seu cordifoʹlia seu placentoïʹdes seu vitelʹla. Order, Urticeæ. The root, according to Piso, is employed as emetic and antidiarrhœic.
Adjective
antidiarrhœic (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of antidiarrheic.
1878, Henri Baillon, translated by Marcus Manuel Hartog, The Natural History of Plants, volume 5, L. Reeve & co., page 305:The embryo is astringent and antidiarrhœic, like the bark and root.