opening (adj.) Copy link • opening (adj.): epith. of medicine: Phr.: to give o. medicine, medicamenta ad alvum dejiciendam dare, cf. Cels. 2, 12; alvi dejectionem medicamentis petere, id. 1, 3, med.: medicamentis (aegrum) purgare, cf. id. 3, 23: to take a strong o. medicine, bene alvum dejicere, Cato R. R. 148. (As medical terms may be used, medicam ntum purgativum, depurgativum. Coel. Aur.; purgatorium, Symm.; catharticum, Kr. [not Cels.]: also *aperiens, subs., M. L. But in Cels. aperire refers to the opening of abscesses, etc., not of the bowels: cf. 5, 18, 25.)