The action of resolve, v. (in various senses); an instance of this.

Medicine. The action of attracting, or the ability to attract, venom, blood, humours, etc.; an instance of this. Also (concrete): †an agent that…

Medicine. Dispersal or dissolution of humours or morbid material; softening of a hardened mass in the body; an instance of this. Obsolete.

Medicine. The action of driving a morbid humour, fluid, etc., back to its source or away or inwards from a swollen or diseased part; the action…

Medicine. The excretion, expulsion, or removal of something from the body. Obsolete.

Medicine. The dispersing of humours, gases, etc.; the softening or shrinking of a swelling or tumour; the subsiding of a disease; an instance of…

Medicine. The action of driving a morbid humour, eruption, etc., away or inwards from an affected part (cf. repel, v. 1); an instance of this. Cf. r…

Gentle and gradual amelioration or evacuation of blood or other humours or body fluids; an instance of this. Cf. epicerastic, n.

Medicine. The withdrawal of inflammation or morbid humour from a diseased part of the body, by blistering, cupping or other means.

The action of purging away (impurities, etc.); transferred the clearing out, removal (of objectionable members of a community).

Absorption (of nutrients); attraction (of humours). Cf. attraction, n. 1 2.

Medicine. The loosening and removal of obstructive or viscid humours: cf. incide, v.1 2. Obsolete.

Medicine. A turning away of the course of the humours by means of medicinal applications. Obsolete.

Medicine. ‘The removal of inflammation, suppuration, or other morbid processes, from a part, and restoration to health’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon)…