Evacuatory
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Evacuatory is an adjective meaning Pertaining to evacuation, especially evacuation of the gastrointestinal tract.
Meaning
Pertaining to evacuation, especially evacuation of the gastrointestinal tract.
More Meanings
- (archaic) A purgative; a laxative.
Example Sentences
Evacuatory dysfunction may be due to mechanical obstruction or functional etiologies or impaired rectal sensation.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- evacuatories
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include purgament, abevacuation, abstersion, dejecture, emunctory, eccrisis.
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