vulnerary

Definition

Useful or used for healing wounds; curative, healing.

Etymology

From Latin vulnerārius, from vulnus (“wound”).

Example Sentences

• "Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that […] there was nothing to fear for his guest’s life."
• "Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus."