unguentum

American  

[uhng-gwen-tuhm] / ʌŋˈgwɛn təm /

noun

• unguenta
  plural

1. (in prescriptions) ointment.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• unguenta
  plural

Etymology

Origin of unguentum

From Latin

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

unguentum

Oh, we are all barristers of Love’s court, Sir; we have Ovid’s gay science conned, Sir, ad unguentum, as they say, out of the French book.

From The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley

The most certain cure is the unguentum aureum—not applied to the horse, but to the palm of the master of the inn or stable.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

"Take unguentum populeum, and Vervain and Hypericon, and put a red-hot iron into it: You must anoint the back-bone, or wear it in your breast."

From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Ernest Rhys

Also, unguentum album, or diapompholigos, spread upon a small piece of leather in form of a plaster, will not be amiss.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

If the bone seems to be well consolidated, it should be rubbed with an ointment of dialthea or the unguentum marciation, after which the splints and bandage are to be reapplied.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson