单词 | reducing treatment |
释义 | > as lemmasreducing treatment reducing treatment n. †(a) Medicine treatment intended to reduce fever or inflammation, esp. bleeding or restriction of food intake; an instance of this (obsolete); (b) treatment that reduces body weight; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1772 J. M. Adair Comm. Princ. & Pract. Physic 398 In the case of CC, bleeding and the reducing treatment was the most effectual means of restoring salutary determination. 1837 W. Stokes Treat. Diagnosis & Treatm. Dis. Chest i. 115 These symptoms must be met by an omission of all reducing treatment. 1907 F. H. Burnett Shuttle xix. 195 Mina is growing fat, and spends her days in taking reducing treatments. 1999 Skeptical Inquirer (Nexis) 1 May 13 Only recently, I heard about a new reducing treatment given by some doctor in Florida. The urine of a pregnant woman is injected into the obese patient to ‘break down the fat cells’. < as lemmas |
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