Word Meanings - ENTERIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal. Enteric fever , typhoid fever.

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• FEVER
  A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom,
• CANAL
  A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.
• FEVERFEW
  A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
• CANALICULATE; CANALICULATED
  Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
• FEVERISH
  1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
• FEVERET
  A slight fever. Ayliffe.
• CANALIZATION
  Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ALIMENTARY
  Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the
• FEVEROUS
  1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats. 2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse. All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. Milton. 3. Having the tendency to produce fever;
• FEVERY
  Feverish. B. Jonson.
• ENTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal. Enteric fever , typhoid fever.
• FEVERWORT
  See FEVER
• CANALICULUS
  A minute canal.
• INTESTINAL
  Of or pertaining to the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments. Intestinal canal. Same as Intestine, n. -- Intestinal worm , any species of helminth living in the intestinal canal of any animal.
• ENTERON
  The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.
• CANAL COAL
  See COAL
• FEVEROUSLY
  Feverishly. Donne.
• TYPHOID
  Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms. Typhoid fever, a disease formerly confounded with typhus, but essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by fever, lasting usually three
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• DECANAL
  Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side
• MESENTERON
  All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod, a
• ARCHENTERON
  The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.
• BUCK FEVER
  Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting.
• GASTROINTESTINAL
  Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric. (more info) Med.)
• ENFEVER
  To excite fever in. A. Seward.
• DYSENTERIC; DYSENTERICAL
  Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient. "Dysenteric symptoms." Copland.
• LIENO-INTESTINAL
  Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno- intestinal vein of the frog.
• CHAGRES FEVER
  A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.