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antiscorbutic

Medicine
Definition of antiscorbutic

adjective

  • (chiefly of a drug) having the effect of preventing or curing scurvy.

noun

  • an antiscorbutic food or drug.

antiscorbutic in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of antiscorbutic in the US English dictionary
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