attributive with the sense ‘containing mercuric chloride’ (see sense 1), esp. in the names of (former) medicinal preparations, as sublimate bath, s…

Now rare. = heroic, adj. 4b.

Of or relating to Perkinism or Elisha Perkins; = Perkinistic, adj.

Of or relating to Perkinism or its inventor; = Perkinean, adj.

Designating medical and surgical treatment involving aggressive measures which are potentially life-saving but risk further injury to the patient.

Medicine. Designating supplementary methods of medical treatment; (in later use) spec. designating therapies for cancer administered after removal…

Medicine and Surgery. Of medical or surgical treatment: involving intervention; active; intensive or extensive; radical.

Having a calming effect; sedative.

Of or pertaining to bacteriotherapy.

Of, relating to, or used in mechanotherapy.

of, involving, or by means of inhalation.

Medicine. Of a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure: that does not require the insertion of instruments (often including hypodermic needles) through…

Medicine. Designating a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure in which the skin is broken (e.g. with a surgical blade or syringe), or an instrument is…

Involving or requiring more than one area of study or expertise, esp. of medical treatment.