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• n  a mild cathartic
• a  stimulating evacuation of feces

• A girl of 19, her mother testified, had taken a laxative nearly every day since early childhood.
• Not by an American, though, because an American would never have named it after a highly advertised, highly marketed laxative of the same name that was popular then.
• The tiny, white-coated globules, FTC found, are an irritative laxative (with one of their ingredients described as "drastic"), and have no medicinal effect on the liver.

• costive

News & Articles

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• A Commonly Overlooked Travel Spoiler Can Interrupt Your Summer Vacation Plans
  STAMFORD, Conn., July 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- If you're like most summer travelers, there's probably an item you're forgetting to pack… laxatives. Because travelers tend to be off their routine, perhaps ...
  July 16, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Adrian Mutu in Globe and Mail
  I'm not happy. Such a long ban for a laxative pill seems really excessive,Mutu said in a statement read out to reporters by his lawyer Paolo Rodella, who said the player may now appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
• Dave Barry in Valley Courier Online
  In February 2008, Barry wrote, "MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but: Have you ever seen a space shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish...
• Richard Mabey in Independent
  Richard Mabey says that after the start of June, nettle leaves become "coarse, unpleasantly bitter and decidedly laxative".