revertent

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tənt/

Noun

revertent (plural revertents)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “revertent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: reverte, revertes

Verb

revertent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of reverter

Latin

Verb

revertent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of revertō