Present participle of 'absterge'; the act of cleansing or wiping away.
Regular present participle formation of 'absterge', adding '-ing' to create the gerund form used in English verbs.
This form might appear in very old medical or scientific texts, but it's become so archaic that modern readers would need a dictionary to understand it, showing how scientific language evolves and leaves behind unused terms.
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