What's the difference between unguent and unguentary?

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 .

Unguentary


Definition:

  • (a.) Like an unguent, or partaking of its qualities.

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