/huy"dreuh gawg', -gog'/ , adj.
1. causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
n.
2. Also, hydragog . Pharm. a hydragogue agent.
[ 1630-40; hydragogus hydragogós water-conveying, equiv. to hydr- HYDR- 1 + agogós leading, guiding (see -AGOGUE) ]