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Definition of: laxative
(lak′sə·tiv) noun Med.
A gentle purgative.
—adjective Med.
1. Having power to open or loosen the bowels, as a medicine; gently purgative.
2. Subject to or characterized by diarrhea: laxative bowels, a laxative disease. [<F, fem. of laxatif <L laxativus <laxare. See LAXATION.]
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