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fomentation

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11 lettersPronunciation /fəʊmənˈteɪʃ(ə)n/Part of speech nounSorted aefimnnoottStarts with FEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord)

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  • We have already spoken of the great utility of hot fomentation to the stomach and bowels, as a means of relieving intense suffering in any internal organ of the body, or in the extremities.
  • […] I purged him with our Quintaeſſencia Solutiuo, eight dayes together, that being done I made him a fomentation, that cauſed him to ſweate well, and to ſpitte aboundaunce, […]
  • I then applied a Fomentation to the Part, which highly anſwered the Intention; and after three or four Times dreſſing, the Wound began to diſcharge a thick Pus or Matter, […]

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