-agogic-, -agogue, -agog, -agogic, -agoguery, -agogy

An agent that promotes the flow of blood.

A medicine reputed to expel all morbid humors.

Of medicines: Having the property of removing accumulations of water or serum, or of causing watery evacuations.

1. Having the property of removing accumulations of water or serum, or of causing watery evacuations.
2. Producing a discharge of watery fluid; denoting a class of cathartics that retain fluids in the intestine and aid in the removal of edematous fluids; such as, saline cathartics.
3. Causing watery discharge; especially, watery stools.

Denoting a transitional state, related to the hypnoidal, preceding sleep; applied also to various hallucinations that may manifest themselves at that time.

1. Sleep-producing; hypnotic.
2. Preceding sleep: a reference to images or dreams that are perceived during the transition between the waking state and sleep.

1. A hypnotic agent that induces sleep.
2. An agent causing sleepiness or drowsiness.

1. Inducing sleep or induced by sleep.
2. In psychology, pertaining to hallucinations or dreams that occur just before the loss of consciousness.
3. Denoting a condition similar to the hypnagogic, through which the mind passes in coming out of sleep; denoting also hallucinations experienced at such times.

1. Introductory to any branch of study.
2. Introductory studies; especially, that department of theology that is introductory to exegesis, and is concerned with the literary and external history of the books of the Bible.

Adapted to produce a flow of milk.

Having the power to expel calculi (“stones”) from the kidneys or bladder.

An agent that increases the formation and flow of lymph.

Having the property of expelling black bile.