Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lithagogue

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lith-a-gogue
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"seeds were formerly used as a lithagogue, or expeller of the stone in the bladder"

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

lithagogues (plural)

Questions

What does lithagogue mean?: Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
Where does lithagogue come from?: Ancient Greek

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