alvine
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of alvine
1745–55; < Latin alvīnus, equivalent to alv ( us ) belly + -īnus -ine 1
Example Sentences
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In the course of time the button loosens itself into the interior of the bowel and comes away with the alvine evacuation.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
During teething there is generally much torpor of the bowels; here, then, castor oil is a very appropriate and useful artificial means of increasing the frequency of the alvine discharges.
From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Bull, Thomas
When you wish to accelerate or augment the alvine exoneration, take two, three, or more, according to the effect you desire to produce.
From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by Kitchiner, William
The influence on the alvine process is if anything even more marked than that on the assimilative process.
From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.
Consequently, if this secretion is interrupted by disease, there will be a proportionally diminished necessity for alvine evacuations.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
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