ecbolic

ec·bolic

helping to bring forth the fetus in birth, or causing abortion, by contracting the uterus: said of certain drugs

Origin of ecbolic

Classical Greek ekbol?, a throwing out from ek-, out + ballein, to throw (see ball) + -ic

an ecbolic drug

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Adjective

(comparative more ecbolic, superlative most ecbolic)

(medicine) Producing abortion of a fetus or accelerating childbirth, oxytocic.

Noun

(plural ecbolics)

(medicine) An agent that produces abortion of a fetus or hastens delivery of the same.

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Lead salts usually produce constipation, and lead is an active ecbolic. Lead is said to enter the blood as an albuminate in which form it is deposited in the tissues.
In some of the lower vertebrates quinine reduces the activity of the spinal cord, but in the human species it appears to stimulate the nervous mechanism of the uterus under certain conditions, and it is therefore included under the class of oxytocic or ecbolic drugs.

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