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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. alteratives: Collins English Dictionary
  2. alteratives: Wordnik
  3. alteratives: Wiktionary
  4. alteratives: Dictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alteratives: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. alteratives: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  3. Alteratives: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alterative)

noun:  (medicine, now historical) A medicine or treatment which works by changing processes within the body, rather than by evacuating something etc.
adjective:  Causing alteration.
adjective:  (medicine) Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state into a healthy one.
▸ Also see alterative


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