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A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

r putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.

To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea.

A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

d to the lower extremity of the rectum. Vesical tenesmus, a similar sensation as to the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the bladder.

atter. It is characterized by fever, lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrhæa with evacuations resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bit…