Crossword clues for fomentation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fomentation \Fo`men*ta"tion\, n. [?. fomentatio: cf. F. fomentation.]
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(Med.)
The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
The lotion applied to a diseased part.
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Excitation; instigation; encouragement.
Dishonest fomentation of your pride.
--Young.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Late Latin fomentationem (nominative fomentatio), noun of action from past participle stem of fomentare "to foment," from Latin fomentum (see foment).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors. 2 The lotion applied to a diseased part. 3 excitation; instigation; encouragement.
WordNet
n. application of warm wet coverings to a part of the body to relieve pain and inflammation
deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) [syn: instigation]
Usage examples of "fomentation".
The infusion of Wormwood makes a useful fomentation for inflammatory pains, and, combined with chamomile flowers and bay leaves, it formed the anodyne fomentation of the earlier dispensatories.
Your Eminence, it is fomentation of the most disgusting sort, calling for revolution, brigandage and the atheistic folly of separation of church and state.
When the inflammation is located in an organ within a cavity, as the lungs, hot fomentations will be of great service.
Hot fomentations or spirits of turpentine should be applied to the throat.
If the joints are very painful, cloths wet with the Compound Extract of Smart-weed and applied to them, and covered with hot fomentations, very frequently relieve the suffering.
As local treatment, in the active stage of the disease, the knee-joint should be steamed, and hot fomentations applied.
Hot fomentations made with stramonium leaves and lobelia, and applied over the painful parts, are beneficial.
Hot fomentations should be applied to the throat and upper portions of the chest.
Warm fomentations applied to the abdomen are sometimes very serviceable, and are objectionable only because of their liability to dampen the bed-clothes.
If inflammatory symptoms supervene, fomentations and poultices should be applied.
Country persons apply these leaves to open sores and wounds, or make a poultice of them, or give fomentations with a hot decoction of the same, or prepare a gargle from the decoction when cold.
These capsules are commonly known as Poppyheads, obtained from the druggist for use in domestic fomentations to allay pain.
They advocate bloodletting, laxatives, hot fomentations, a potion of hydromel mixed with hyssop, and lozenges made from galbanum and turpentine resin.
The good people of Leicestershire were accustomed in bygone days to prevent pitting by small-pox with the use of Silverweed fomentations.
In fact, China, Korea, Indochina, the Philippines, represented local Communist movements, not Russian fomentation.