In stricture defecation is difficult and painful; in contraction the alvine discharges are painless.
It is impossible to fix any definite rule as a standard of health for the number and quantity of alvine evacuations.
The carriers of the typhoid poison are the alvine and possibly the cutaneous and other excretions.
The first alvine discharges after we received food, were, as Hearne remarks on a similar occasion, attended with excessive pain.
Common diarrhœa—purging, or scours—manifests itself simply by the copiousness and fluidity of the alvine evacuations.
As a deodoriser, when the alvine evacuations are unusually fetid.
The unpleasant smell of the alvine evacuations is assuredly a large element in the disgust these inspire.
The influence on the alvine process is if anything even more marked than that on the assimilative process.
The condition of the voluntary abdominal muscles is likewise a factor in the alvine process.
To be used in alvine fluxes, to allay the irritation which occasions constant tenesmus.
