Revulsive is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 250 anagrams from letters in revulsive (eeilrsuvv).
1610-20; Latin revuls(us) (see revulsion) + -ive
Its efficacy depends upon the revulsive effect which follows a local destruction of tissue.
In cupping for revulsive purposes, one cupped on a distant part to relieve excess of blood in the affected part.
Dry cupping, in its simplest form, was said to act as a “revulsive” or “derivant.”
Cold affusions and shower baths have been employed for their revulsive and sedative effect in mania.
The first feeling of Penthesilea, when disillusioned, is of revulsive anger at a kind of betrayal.
The injected water dilates the constricted portion of the gut and arouses a revulsive impulse to expel the invading water.
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