pituitous
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of pituitous
First recorded in 1600–10, pituitous is from the Latin word pītuītōsus full of phlegm. See pip 2, -ous
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The leg was greatly swelled, and imbued with a pituitous humor … and bent and drawn back.
From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various
It is a white soft Tumour, with very little sense of Pain, which ariseth from the Settling of a pituitous Humour.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc
The fourth temperament is the phlegmatic, lymphatic, pituitous, or watery, for all these terms used by different physiologists are synonymous.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
It is excellent, too, in those fevers where the effect is at once to parch and to chill; and even miraculous in those disorders ascribed to cold, thin, phlegmatic, and pituitous humors.
From International Short Stories: French by A. Cheneviere
Professor Tourtelle calls it a pneumo-gastric, pituitous catarrh; and certainly, the pupils of a modern school will find no difficulty in recognizing symptoms of gastritis in its severer forms.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
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