The meaning of Paregoric
Paregoric – definition
nounA medicine consisting of opium flavoured with camphor, aniseed, and benzoic acid, formerly used to treat diarrhoea and coughing in children.
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Medications used in this approach include paregoric, tincture of opium, phenobarbital, benzodiazepi…
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Word origin
late 17th century: via late Latin from Greek parēgorikos ‘soothing’, from the verb parēgorein, literally ‘speak in the assembly’, hence ‘soothe, console’.
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