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English
Etymology
From evacuate + -ory.
Adjective
evacuatory
- 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)
- (archaic) A purgative; a laxative.
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