The act or an instance of eliminating contamination: a purification, a cleansing, particularly:
The removal of waste from the human body, particularly:
(chiefly medicine) Vomiting; vomiting induced by purgatives.
(obsolete and rare) That which is purged: contamination, a contaminant; refuse; sin; etc.
(obsolete and rare) Synonym of purgation: the act or an instance of removing guilt or suspicion of a misdeed.
(dermatology) The process in which acne temporarily worsened due to the introduction of skincare products that increase cell turnover, bringing underlying acne to the surface more quickly.
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He had violent pains in his belly, and purgings...
Skin purging looks a lot like acne, but they are not the same. Skin purging may have many of the skin issues of acne, but it’s the storm before the calm, versus the other way around.