As'a-fet'i-dā or As'a-fœt'i-dā, n.

n. [N. Lat. asa, q. v., and Lat. fetidus, fetid.] A fetid inspissated sap, from Persia and the East Indies. It is the concrete juice of a large umbelliferous plant, the Ferula asafetida, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic.