■ noun
1》 a sense of disgust and loathing.
2》 Medicine, chiefly historical the drawing of disease or blood congestion from one part of the body to another, e.g. by counterirritation.
Derivatives
revulsive adjective &noun
Origin
C16: from Fr., or from L. revulsio(n-) , from revuls- , revellere 'tear out'.