Thesaurus: alterative

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1. a. Causing ateration.
2. a. Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.
3. n. A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
4. adj. tending to cure or restore to health
5. Causing ateration. Specifically: Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton. A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
6. Causing ateration. Specifically:
7. s tending to cure or restore to health