apertive

Causing the body to open; dissolving blockages or having a purgative or diuretic effect.

Both its root and seeds are hydragogeous, and very apertive, and therefuore usefull in hydroptical and watry diseases.

Oppression and stopping at Brest and Stomach. Though very few live when they come to these things, yet here and there one makes a shift to creep over this and many other threatning signes; but you must not goe about to cure this as you doe other stoppings in the stomach, as by squills oximells, bomits, but by apertive medicines as this:

Pertaining to or using an aperture; apertural.

In this part the author leaves the stylus method and passes on to the interference method, which is very valuable because it can resolve scratches down to a width of about 0.00002" or 0.00003", provided that a high apertive microscope objective is used.

Seasat was launched in June 1978 and carries a synthetic apertive radar.

Tending to open.

Prefractures are weak or apertive when the prefixed vowel has a greater closure formed by the tongue or lips than the original vowel, so that the result is a progressive opening.

Eberhart is a philosopher-poet whose avowed ambition is “to open/ Poetry to apertive speculation.”

A substance that can be used medicinally for its apertive effect.

The Love Bush seems to have been used in olden days in medicine, for Browne in 1789 writes: "It has been always esteemed as a diuretic and apertive, and formerly used as an ingredient in come of the compositions of the shops".

Gentian has been used for centuries as a tonic to aid digestion; and it is currently employed in the manufacture of apertives and bitters, notably Gentiane, a Swiss digestive liquor.