Term: counterirritant: a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation
Broader: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Unrelated: holder: the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it
Broader: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Unrelated: eschar: a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin
Broader: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Unrelated: thrombasthenia: a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results
Broader: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Unrelated: metathesis: a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
Broader: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Unrelated: pan: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
Broader: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Unrelated: blastema: a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops
Broader: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Unrelated: townie: resident of a college town not affiliated with the college
Broader: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Unrelated: religious: a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
Broader: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Unrelated: exhortation: the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion
Broader: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Unrelated: inherence: the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic