English Dictionary

fomentation

IPA（発音記号）

/fəʊmənˈteɪʃ(ə)n/

名詞

The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain by relaxing the skin, or of discussing (dispersing) tumours.

日本語の意味

温かく柔らかい薬用物質を皮膚に塗布して、痛みを和らげたり、腫瘍を拡散させるために行われる治療法・処置 / 温湿布療法

The government's swift crackdown was a response to the fomentation that threatened public order.

政府の迅速な取り締まりは、公共の秩序を脅かす扇動に対する対応だった。

意味（1）

The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain by relaxing the skin, or of discussing (dispersing) tumours.

Twenty leeches were ordered to be applied round the nose every two days; frequent emollient fomentations; the local vapour bath; general bathing; stimulating pedilavia; a strict regimen; vegetables, milk, white meats; demulcent or acidulated drinks; avoidance of exposure to the sun or to cold air; flannel waistcoat and trousers. This treatment, being strictly observed for two months, caused all the inflammatory symptoms to disappear, […]

意味（2）

A lotion or poultice applied to a diseased or injured part of the body.

[…] I purged him with our Quintaeſſencia Solutiuo, eight dayes together, that being done I made him a fomentation, that cauſed him to ſweate well, and to ſpitte aboundaunce, […]

意味（3）

Encouragement; excitation; instigation.

[T]he Catholick King complained very much thereof, upbraiding the moſt Chriſtian King how ill this did correſpond to the ſo many aſſiſtances which were given by Spain to France ſince that from thence ſo great a fomentation was now preparing to his Rebels in Flanders.

fomentations （ plural ）