rubefacient

English

Etymology

From Latin rubefaciens, present participle of rubefacere (“to make red”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

rubefacient (comparative more rubefacient, superlative most rubefacient)

  1. Making red.

Noun

rubefacient (plural rubefacients)

  1. (medicine) A substance for topical application that produces redness of the skin, e.g. by dilating the capillaries.
    • 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 165:
      The symptoms had diminished for a time, under the employment of rubefacients and cathartics; but the pain in the left side of the thorax returned in the evening of the 29th.

Latin

Verb

rubefacient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of rubefaciō
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