evacuatory

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English

Etymology

From evacuate +‎ -ory.

Adjective

evacuatory

  1. Pertaining to evacuation, especially evacuation of the gastrointestinal tract.
    • 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, B.I. Davydov, editor, Problems of Space Biology, page 95:
      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.
    • 2006, Richard Mizen, Mark Morris, On Aggression and Violence: An Analytic Perspective:
      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.
    • 2010, Andrew P. Zbar, Steven D. Wexner, Coloproctology, page 139:
      Evacuatory dysfunction may be due to mechanical obstruction or functional etiologies or impaired rectal sensation.

Noun

evacuatory (plural evacuatories)

  1. (archaic) A purgative; a laxative.

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