hydragogue

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English

Etymology

From Latin hydragogus (“conveying off water”), from Ancient Greek ὑδραγωγός (hudragōgós, “to lead”). Compare French hydragogue.

Adjective

hydragogue (comparative more hydragogue, superlative most hydragogue)

  1. (medicine) Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy.

Noun

hydragogue (plural hydragogues)

  1. Any medicine of this kind, usually a cathartic or diuretic.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hydragogue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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