aperients's Usage Examples:

The case should be treated by rest in bed, fomentations, calomel and saline aperients.

Above all, fasting was a mode of preparing oneself for the sacramental eating of a sacred animal, and as such often assisted by use of purgatives and aperients.

Should these means fail, aperients may be used.

The treatment in such latter cases necessarily varies, since the symptom itself may be remedial, but in ordinary cases depends on the removal of the cause of irritation by the use of aperients, various sedatives being also prescribed.

Synonyms:

laxative,

Antonyms:

costive, over-the-counter drug,