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Fomentation

noun
1.
A substance used as a warm moist medicinal compress or poultice.
2.
Application of warm wet coverings to a part of the body to relieve pain and inflammation.
3.
Deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord).  Synonym: instigation.





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"Fomentation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the ends of the string hang out through the wound. In the course of about a week, the strings will usually drop off, and the wounds will speedily heal. There will rarely be any occasion to make any application to the scrotum, except fomentation of it, if much ...
— Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings
... fomentation is simply a clean poultice. Several thicknesses of flannel are taken, wrung out of very hot water, covered with cotton batting, and then with ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague


Words linked to "Fomentation" :   intervention, compress, treatment, substance, foment, initiation, induction, trigger


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