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evacuatory

evacuatory adjective: pertaining to evacuation, especially evacuation of the gastrointestinal tract.

Adjective

evacuatory

  1. Pertaining to evacuation, especially evacuation of the gastrointestinal tract.
    • Consequently, disruption of the evacuatory function of the stomach during the first few days after introduction of cystamine and irradiation was more pronounce than when these factors acted separately.1973, I.G. Krasnykh, L. A. Tyutin, “Influence of Certain Radioprotective Preparations on the Motor-Evacuatory Function of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Healthy and Irradiated Rats”, in P.P. Saksonov...
    • We have located the origins and mechanisms of violence in the violating unbearable affective experience, which occurs as a consequence of failures of attunement or affective containment and in the projective, evacuatory psychological defences that then arise.2006, Richard Mizen, Mark Morris, On Aggression and Violence: An Analytic Perspective

Noun

evacuatory (plural evacuatories)

  1. (archaic) A purgative; a laxative.

Forms of evacuatory

pluralevacuatories

Origin of evacuatory

From evacuate + -ory.

Questions about evacuatory

What does evacuatory mean?
Evacuatory means pertaining to evacuation, especially evacuation of the gastrointestinal tract.
What part of speech is evacuatory?
Evacuatory can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near evacuatory in the dictionary

  1. evacuative
  2. evacuatives
  3. evacuator
  4. evacuatories
  5. evacuators
  6. evacuatory
  7. evacuchair
  8. evacuchairs
  9. evacuee
  10. evacuees
  11. evacuole

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