lithagogue

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Noun

lithagogue (plural lithagogues)

1. (medicine, archaic) Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
   • 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, “LITHOSPERMUM”, in Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia:

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

References

• “lithagogue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.