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Attenuant


ATTEN'UANT, adjective [See Attenuate.]

Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid.

ATTEN'UANT, noun A medicine which thins the humors, subtilizes their parts, dissolves viscidity, and disposes the fluids to motion, circulation and secretion; a diluent.