Vocabulary : Attenuant to Attest
Attenuant : Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent. ;; A medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.Attenuate : To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies. ;; To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts. ;; To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken. ;; To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen. ;; Alt. of Attenuated
Attenuated : of Attenuate ;; Made thin or slender. ;; Made thin or less viscid; rarefied.
Attenuating : of Attenuate
Attenuation : The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. ;; The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. ;; The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.
