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CORRIGENT

\kˈɒɹɪd͡ʒənt], \kˈɒɹɪd‍ʒənt], \k_ˈɒ_ɹ_ɪ_dʒ_ə_n_t]\

Definitions of CORRIGENT

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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Corrective.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

A corrigent, in a pharmaceutical formula, is a substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

Correcting, modifying favorably; in therapeutics, so modifying a drug as to deprive it of severe or unpleasant action; as a n., a substance having that effect. [Lat.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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