Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun milk_of_magnesia

1 sense of milk of magnesia

Sense 1
milk of magnesia -- (purgative consisting of a milky white liquid suspension of magnesium hydroxide; used as a laxative and (in smaller doses) as an antacid)
       => purgative, cathartic, physic, aperient -- (a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels)