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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
alleviating, alleviative, analgesic, anesthetic, anodyne, assuasive, balm, balmy, balsam, balsamic, benumbing, brilliantine, calmant, calmative, cathartic, cerate, chrism, cleansing, cold cream, collyrium, cream, deadening, dulling, easing, embrocation, emollient, eye-lotion, eyewash, eyewater, face cream, hand lotion, inunction, inunctum, lanolin, lenitive, liniment, loosening, lotion, mitigating, mitigative, mollifying, nard, numbing, oil, ointment, pain-killing, palliative, pomade, pomatum, purgative, relaxing, relieving, remedial, salve, sedative, softening, soothing, soothing syrup, spikenard, subduing, unction, unguent, unguentum, vulnerary
Dictionary Results for demulcent:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
demulcent
    adj 1: having a softening or soothing effect especially to the
           skin [syn: demulcent, emollient, salving,
           softening]
    n 1: a medication (in the form of an oil or salve etc.) that
         soothes inflamed or injured skin

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Obtundent \Ob*tund"ent\, n. [L. obtundens, p. pr. of obtundere.]
   (Med.)
   A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation,
   usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly
   the same as demulcent. --Forsyth.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Demulcent \De*mul"cent\, a. [L. demulcens, p. pr. of demulcere.]
   Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is
   demulcent.
   [1913 Webster]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Demulcent \De*mul"cent\, n. (Med.)
   A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature,
   supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous
   membrane, or protecting it from irritation. Gum Arabic,
   glycerin, olive oil, etc., are demulcents.
   [1913 Webster]

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