oxytocic, a. and n. Med.
(ɒksɪˈtɒsɪk)
[f. Gr. ὀξυτόκιον = oxytocic n., f. ὀξυ-, oxy- 1 + τόκος childbirth.]
a. adj. Serving to accelerate parturition. b. n. A medicine having this property.
| 1853 Dunglison Med. Lex., Oxytocic,..a medicine which promotes delivery. 1873 R. Barnes Dis. Women xviii. 187 Indian hemp..is credited..with oxytocic properties. Ibid., The powers of galvanism as an oxytocic, and even in originating uterine contraction. 1875 H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 69 The oxytocic action of quinia was believed in many years ago by numbers of our Southern practitioners. |