Inspissant

[pat]

Can be a noun or an adjective (rejected by the pantsuit puzzle). Suitable for inclusion?

[birdy]

Looks to be a real word though I have never come across it. Is it used more in medical context than in dehydration context?

[Alan W]

We already accept inspissate, inspissator and inspissation. Inspissant is in Wiktionary and the OED. A usage example is from a 2002 book called Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol, by Mary E. Fissell:

Home spoke up for the humble plantain as well, claiming that it was an inspissant (meaning that it thickened bodily fluids) and hence was good for phthisis, fluxes, ophthalmia, and ulcers.

I'll add it as a rare word.

[pat]

Thanks, Alan.