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Calefacient(health)
calefacient(dictionary)

Beefeater (oh) and calefacient (medicine)


Beefeater (oh)



a traditional guard at the Tower of London

calefacient (medicine)


calefacient


1. Making warm or hot.

2. An agent causing a sense of warmth in the part to which it is applied.

Origin: L. Calefacio, fr. Caleo, to be warm, + facio, to make