Agents that are used to stimulate evacuation of the bowels.
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Examples for "cathartic"
Examples for "cathartic"
1Shooting the role was exhausting and cathartic, particularly given Douglas's own circumstances.
2So yes, it was very cathartic in that way, the actor said.
3However, changing our perspective may be a helpful and a cathartic move.
4And yes, the actual writing of the book itself was extremely cathartic.
5There is extreme violence, but it's cathartic and secondary to the characterisation.
1There is no evidence of which I am cognizant in favor of purgatives.
2The use of castor oil and other strong purgatives do not interrupt it.
3Nothing seemed to benefit him, and purgatives only augmented his trouble.
4Similarly, long-continued administration of strong purgatives tends to make them a permanent necessity.
5There are certain cases in which purgatives are alleged to be of use, viz.
1Pity and terror, says Aristotle in his Poetics, are the soul's cathartics.
2In actual medical supplies, we had plenty of quinine and cathartics.
3The use of cathartics is dangerous, for they may excite superpurgation.
4Salines should not be allowed, or other cathartics which cause profuse watery discharges.
5Castor oil, calomel, and other frequently-used cathartics should never be used in simple constipation.
Translations for bowel evacuants