Attenuant
a medicine or agent that thins the blood.
historical examples
as a diuretic and attenuant in dropsy, or as an expectorant in chronic coughs.
cooley’s cyclopdia of practical receipts and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades…, sixth edition, volume i arnold cooley
adjective
causing dilution or thinness, esp of the blood
noun
(obsolete) an attenuant drug or agent
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