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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(medicine, archaic) Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine..
seeds were formerly used as a lithagogue, or expeller of the stone in the bladder
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Lithagogue means (medicine, archaic) Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine..
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seeds were formerly used as a lithagogue, or expeller of the stone in the bladder
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