peach pit

Noun

peach pit (plural peach pits)

1. The stone of a peach.
   • DR. IRA VAN GIESON said that he was indebted to Dr. Jenkins, of Brooklyn, for the interesting specimen which he had to present. Four years prior to the death of the patient, who was a robust man, fifty-five years of age, he was seized rather suddenly with intense epigastric pains, which were...1893 January 7, New York Pathological Society, “A Foreign Body Impacted in the Pyloric End of the Stomach”, in George F. Shrady, editor, Medical Record. A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery...
   • ŒSOPHAGEAL STENOSIS.
     TO THE EDITOR OF THE MEDICAL RECORD.
     Sir: Some eight or ten years ago I wrote you an account of a case of this accident, caused by an attempt to swallow a peach-pit, which became fixed in the gullet. It was in the case of a stout man, sixty or more years of age, who was the...1893 February 4, J.S. Prettyman, “Oesophageal stenosis”, in George F. Shrady, editor, Medical Record. A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 43, number 5 (Whole No. 1161), page 157