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单词 pication
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picationn.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin pication-, picatio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pication-, picatio daubing with pitch (4th cent.), application of warm pitch to the skin as a method of treatment for paralysis (1682 in the passage translated in quot. 1684) < classical Latin picāt- , past participial stem of picāre to smear with pitch ( < pic- , pix pitch n.1) + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare French †pication daubing with pitch (1611 in Cotgrave).
Medicine. Obsolete. rare.
The application of warm pitch to the skin (as a method of treatment for paralysis).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment with mud, sand, etc. > [noun]
pication1684
arenation1717
saburration1763
earth bath1765
mudbath1782
sand-bath1869
moor bath1878
fangotherapy1903
pelotherapy1933
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xiv. 473 If..Sulphureous Bathes..do not succeed, we must proceed to Pication [L. picationem].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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