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Excrementitious

Excrementitial \Ex`cre*men*ti"tial\, Excrementitious \Ex`cre*men*ti"tious\, a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.

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excrementitious

a. Of or pertaining to the nature of excrement.

Usage examples of "excrementitious".

Utricularia,-it is probable that these processes absorb excrementitious and decaying animal matter.

The principal sets of organs concerned in effecting the separation of excrementitious substances from the blood are the lungs, the skin, and the kidneys.

But when Twing read that the excrementitious matters produced by each individual may amount to an annual quantity equal to one ton in weight, and that the other matters included under house sewage may amount to a similar quantity, and amount in total thus of two tons per annum, for every individual of the population, he knew he was on to a winner.

And certainly any body flung into one of the excrementitious rivers surrounding Manhattan would never survive the pollutants.

In the latter case, water charged with excrementitious and decaying matter would be slowly forced outwards, and would bathe the quadrifids, if I am right in believing that the concave lobes contract after a time like those of Dionaea.

And certainly his master owes that couple in the market for the tent destroyed by that excrementitious spell.

Between the large and the small intestine is a valve, which prevents the return of excrementitious matter that has passed into the large intestine.

Since the bile is formed from the venous blood, and taken from the waste and disintegration of animal tissue, it would appear that it is chiefly an excrementitious fluid.

Some excrementitious matters are supposed to be taken from the tissues by the lymph and discharged into the blood, to be ultimately removed from the system.

She discusses the redness of the blood as a sign of health, the characteristics of various excrementitious material as signs of disease, the degrees of fever, and the changes in the pulse.