Definition of Alvine

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the intestines.

Partainyms: Intestine

Definition of Alvine

1. a. Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.

Definition of Alvine

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the belly or intestines. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alvine

1. pertaining to the abdomen and lower intestines [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alvine

alveolonasal line
alveolopalatal
alveoloplasties
alveoloplasty
alveoloschisis
alveolotomy
alveolus
alveolus dentalis
alveoplasty
alvespimycin
alveus
alveus hippocampi
alveus of hippocampus
alvimopan
alvine (current term)
alvine evacuations
alvinellid
alvinellids
alvinolith
alvocidib
alwaies
alway
alwayes
alwayness
always
always-on
always a bridesmaid, never a bride
always in style
alwite

Literary usage of Alvine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"CHAPTER II DISEASES SPREAD LARGELY THROUGH THE alvine DISCHARGES TYPHOID FEVER Typhoid fever is a sanitary problem of first magnitude, especially in this ..."

2. Medical Diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine; a Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1900)
"alvine Discharges.—The faeces consist of about one-fourth solids and ... An excess of bile in the alvine discharges gives rise to evacuations of a yellowish ..."

3. Practical Observations in Surgery: Illustrated by Cases by William Hey (1814)
"Ox alvine CONCRETIONS. CHAP. SO many histories have been published of s^.^, alvine Concretions, which had acquired a form somewhat globular, ..."

4. Obstetrics: the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1852)
"Children that feed many times a day will generally be found to require several alvine dejections per diem. A child that satisfies its instinctive desire for ..."

5. A Report of Microscopical and Physiological Researches Into the Nature of by Timothy Richards Lewis, David Douglas Cunningham (1874)
"The alvine solution introduced having become Putrid: Heated shortly before use. The probable influence exerted by heat on such substances will be ..."

6. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"On some alvine Concretions found in the Colon of a young Man in Lancashire, after Death. By JG Children, Esq. FRS #c. #c. Communicated by the Society for ..."

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