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alterative
Part of speech: AdjectiveHaving the power to change or alter.
Part of speech: NounA medicine that gradually changes the constitution or habit of body.
Usage examples "alterative":- In such cases there is an alterative regimen of remarkable efficacy: it is a starvation- diet of letting alone. - "The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist).
- This process of suppression is continued for months and years, until the organism is so thoroughly saturated with alterative poisons that vital force can no longer react by acute reactions against the original syphilitic poisons. - "Nature Cure", Henry Lindlahr.