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Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

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  1. a. Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.
  3. 1. (Med.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative. 2. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.