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defecate(medicine)
defecate(1)(dictionary)
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defecate(dictionary)

defecate(2) (iou) and chemiatry (medicine)


defecate(2) (iou)



defecate verb. Also defaecate. L15.
[Latin defaecat- pa. ppl stem of defaecare, from de- DE- 3 + faex, pl. faeces dregs: see FAECES, -ATE3.]
verb trans. Clear from dregs or impurities; purify, clarify, refine, (lit. & fig.). Now rare. L15.
fig.: S. Johnson To defecate and clear my mind by brisker motions.
verb trans. Remove in purifying; purge away, void as excrement. Now rare. L15.
verb intrans. Discharge faeces from the bowels. M19.
defecated ppl adjective (now rare) purified (esp. spiritually), clarified; (of evil) unmitigated: E17.
defecator noun a person who or thing which defecates; spec. in sugar manufacture, an apparatus in which sugar solutions are purified: M19.

chemiatry (medicine)


chemiatry -->
iatrochemistry
Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; used especially with Reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that Health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of Health or disease by chemical principles.

Source: Websters Dictionary