defæcating

A form of defæcate

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of defæcate

    A married woman, aged 51, was admitted into University College Hospital on July 4th, 1873, with a history of three weeks’ obstruction of the bowels, following upon difficulty in defæcating of some months’ duration.

    1873, Christopher Heath, “Cases Of Colotomy”, in The British Medical Journal, volume II, page 568
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APA

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Chicago

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