• (RP) IPA: /fəʊmənˈteɪʃ(ə)n/
• (GA) IPA: /ˌfoʊmənˈteɪʃən/

fomentation (plural fomentations)

1. The act of foment#Verb|fomenting; the application of warm#Adjective|warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of ease#Verb|easing pain#Noun|pain by relax#Verb|relaxing the skin#Noun|skin, or of discussing (dispersing) tumours.
2. A lotion or poultice applied to a diseased or injured#Adjective|injured part of the body.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing the Great Address of the Landlady; the Great Learning of a Surgeon, and the Solid Skill in Casuistry of the Worthy Lieutenant”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume III, London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗, book VII, page 110 ↗:

     I then applied a Fomentation to the Part, which highly anſwered the Intention; and after three or four Times dreſſing, the Wound began to diſcharge a thick Pus or Matter, {{...}

3. Encouragement; excitation; instigation.

• foment

• foment
• fomenter
• refoment

• French: fomentation
• Russian: припа́рка

• Italian: fomentazione
• Russian: припа́рка

• French: fomentation
• Italian: fomentazione