What's the difference between onguent and unguent?
Onguent
Definition:
(n.) An unguent.
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Unguent
Definition:
(n.) A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is found that local applications of the unguent with soluble collagen, but not solution of the collagen, stimulate healing of erosions and full-thickness excision wounds in the rat skin.
(2) The treatment recommended in a 5-percent suspension or unguent of pimaricin (natamycin).
(3) Underneath the Great Hall was once an “elaboratory”, where apothecaries concocted their unguents, vomit cakes and elixirs.
(4) From the viewpoint of the technics of application and considering the cost too, the unguent is more favourable.
(5) He survived on the pittance he earned from working as a traditional "African doctor" but his unguents could not protect his daughter from the hidden hunger that threatens the lives of five million people in Malawi .