pituitous

American  

[pi-too-i-tuhs, -tyoo-] / pɪˈtu ɪ təs, -ˈtyu- /

adjective

Archaic.

1. mucous.

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Other Word Forms

• pituitousness noun

Etymology

Origin of pituitous

First recorded in 1600–10, pituitous is from the Latin word pītuītōsus full of phlegm. See pip ², -ous

Example Sentences

It is a soft and very broad Tumour, which usually appears in the Head and Face, containing a white, thick and pituitous Matter.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

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

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 Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

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 Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

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 Cheneviere, A.