cholagogue

American  

[koh-luh-gawg, -gog, kol-uh-] / ˈkoʊ ləˌgɔg, -ˌgɒg, ˈkɒl ə- /

adjective

1. Also cholagogic promoting the flow of bile.

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noun

1. a cholagogue agent.

cholagogue British  

/ ˈkɒləɡɒɡ /

noun

1. a drug or other substance that promotes the flow of bile from the gall bladder into the duodenum

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Other Word Forms

• cholagogic adjective

Etymology

Origin of cholagogue

1605–15; < French < Greek cholagōgós. See chol-, -agogue

Example Sentences

The gall-bladder is also stimulated, and the biliary function of the liver, so that colocynth is both an excretory and a secretory cholagogue.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

On the skin its action is that of a diaphoretic, and being also excreted by the bile it acts slightly as a cholagogue.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

He used instead small doses of tartar emetic, or more recently, of ipecacuanha frequently repeated, with low diet; or cholagogue purgatives combined with ipecacuanha, etc.

From The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University by Peter, Robert

He lived in Richmond, and, to keep him free from fever-and-ague, my brother dosed him freely with cholagogue whenever he came down into the malarial country.

From Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Lee, Robert Edward, General

He did not suspect that the quinine went into the fire, and the cholagogue down the drain-pipe from the washstand.

From The Cromptons by Holmes, Mary Jane