lithagogue

noun

noun

Etymology Ancient Greek

Medicine, Sciences Archaic Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine.

seeds were formerly used as a lithagogue, or expeller of the stone in the bladder1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, “LITHOSPERMUM”, in Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia:

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