Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Producing redness, as of the skin.
- n. A substance that irritates the skin, causing redness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Making red; producing redness, as a medicinal application on the skin.
- n. An application which causes redness or hyperemia of the skin where it is applied, as a mustard plaster.
Wiktionary
- adj. Making red.
- n. medicine A substance for topical application that produces redness of the skin, e.g. by dilating the capillaries.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Making red.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a medicine for external application that produces redness of the skin
Etymologies
- Latin rubefaciens, present participle of rubefacere ("to make red"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin rubefaciēns, rubefacient-, present participle of rubefacere, to make red : rubeus, red; see reudh- in Indo-European roots + facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Peru balsam is used extensively as a local protectant, rubefacient, parasiticide in certain skin diseases, antiseptic, and applied externally as an ointment, or in alcoholic solutions.”
“When applied in lotions every night for five or six times consecutively, it will heal indolent ulcers; and its rubefacient effects serve instead of those produced externally by mustard.”
“These objects are best attained by means of the galvanic current, which should be employed of sufficient intensity to produce a rubefacient effect.”
“Therapeutically it is used externally in leprosy, old ulcers and to destroy corns, but on account of its rubefacient and vesicant qualities it is necessary to use it cautiously.”
“In America the leaves are used as a poultice in otitis, their action being rubefacient.”
“The juice is used externally as a rubefacient in rheumatic affections of the joints.”
“It is said to be extremely acrid -- even small doses producing a great disturbance of the stomach; employed as a rubefacient in fevers, gout, and rheumatism, and as a vesicatory in removing corns from the feet.”
“According to Mérat, the Bedouins use it as a rubefacient, and it is applied in sciatica, forming a substitute for cantharides.”
“The powdered leaves are rubefacient, and act as a substitute for cantharides.”
“This has also a rubefacient and epispastic operation.”
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