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Definition of Rubefacient
1. Noun. A medicine for external application that produces redness of the skin.
Definition of Rubefacient
1. a. Making red.
Definition of Rubefacient
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Rubefacient
1.
Making red.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubefacient
Literary usage of Rubefacient
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"The Volatile Oil is decidedly rubefacient when used externally, and has narcotic
powers if used internally in sufficient quantity. ..."
2. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1874)
"... be regulated by the character of the disease or lesion which it is intended
to cure: thus a rubefacient is chiefly indicated in irritation of mucous ..."
3. Manual of Static Electricity in X-ray and Therapeutic Uses by Samuel Howard Monell (1897)
"Different methods of producing rubefacient effects. Certain forms of application
surpass all other methods of producing quick and effective ..."
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