deobstructive

Having the effect of deobstructing (clearing a passage, etc. of obstructions).

Adjective

  1. Having the effect of deobstructing (clearing a passage, etc. of obstructions).
    • In the weaker and finest bodies Manna may be sufficient, […] or my Deobstructive powder, which I have observed hath done singularly well. - 1672, Edmund Borlase, Latham Spaw in Lancashire with Some Remarkable Cases and...
    • 1860, uncredited translator, The Epigrams of Martial, London: Henry G. Bohn, Epigram 47, p. 153, There coleworts might you see of noblest shoot; There might admire each lettuce, leek, and root; But, above all, the...
    • […] to regulate the bowel, by diet and mechanical methods (including, if necessary, deobstructive surgery); - 1916 September, William Ewart, “Deseases of the Thorax and its Viscera”, in Progressive Medicine, volume 3,...

Origin

From de- + obstructive.

Forms

more deobstructive most deobstructive

Noun

  1. Something that has the effect of deobstructing.
    • […] by setting up currents through the kidneys […] it [turpentine] has acted as a renal deobstructive. - 1885, Samuel M. Bemiss, “Malarial Fevers”, in William Pepper, editor, A System of Practical Medicine,...

Forms

deobstructives