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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It may be caused by dryness or emptiness, which rob the child of its nourishment, or by an alvine discharge, by bleeding or some other evacuation, by inflammation of the womb, and other severe disease.
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
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)
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.
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
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