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Therapeutic Terms
| Volatile |
evaporates quickly and easily from a liquid
(e.g. essential oil) into a vapor gas |
| Vasoconstrictive |
contracting blood vessels, raising blood
pressure; hypertensor |
| Vasodilatory |
enlarging blood vessels, reducing blood
pressure; hypotensor |
| Vermifuge |
expelling intestinal worms; anthelmintic |
| Vesicant |
producing skin blisters (therapeutically to
induce counter-irritant serum) |
| Veridical |
having the capacity to or tending to destroy or
inactivate viruses |
| Vulnerary |
useful in healing wounds |
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