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interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea. That darksome cave they enter. Spenser. I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent. Milton.

A prefix signifying between, among, part.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.

The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.

Pain in the intestines; colic.

Mutual dealings; intercourse. [Obs.] The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.

One who makes an entrance or beginning. A. Seward.

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

= Advancing edge.

An inflammation of the intestines. Hoblyn.

See Interlace.

To interfere; to intermeddle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.

Mediation. [Obs.]

A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.

A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.

An intestinal concretion.

The science which treats of the viscera of the body.

The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.