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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L. E. D.—This bark is a strong astringent; and hence stands recommended in haemorrhagies, alvine fluxes, and other preternatural or immoderate secretions.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, 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.
The first alvine discharges after we received food were, as Hearne remarks on a similar occasion, attended with excessive pain.
From The Journey to the Polar Sea by Franklin, John
There had been an alvine evacuation during the time in which he lay in the blankets.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various
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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