Meanings
- not comparablerareRelating to, or produced by, meat.
creatic nausea
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Certain states of the blood in health and disease also cause an ailment resembling pica; thus, in the arthritic there is often a great desire for flesh, while in the strumous, creatic nausea is equally as common.
1866, William Carmichael McIntosh, On some of the varieties of morbid impulse and perverted instinct, page 4Dad […], no culinary pilot, occasionally rustled up something that invariably required rubbing his hands or arms with the burn-balm carron oil from being scalded or which gave her creatic nausea and made her vomit if she ate it.
2009 July 6, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 189... he is just a ruptured sack of mangled jellies, his every organ corrivated into one creatic mush, his fragmented bones a thousand jagged dice; too amoeboid now to be thought to have ever been a man, spread out amorphously over the mosaics. When they try to lift him, his body oozes out of his clothes[…]
2020 June 5, Alex Burcher, As Ants to the Gods, Elsewhen Press, →ISBN
Origin
- Ancient Greekκρέας“meat”
- Englishcreatic
From Ancient Greek κρέας (kréas, “meat”) (genitive κρέατος (kréatos)) + -ic.
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