evacuatory

1. Pertaining to evacuation, especially evacuation of the gastrointestinal tract.

   Evacuatory dysfunction may be due to mechanical obstruction or functional etiologies or impaired rectal sensation.

   2010, Andrew P. Zbar, Steven D. Wexner, Coloproctology, page 139

   2 more examples

   Consequently, disruption of the evacuatory function of the stomach during the first few days after introduction of cystamine and irradiation was more pronounce than when these factors acted separately.

   1973, I.G. Krasnykh, L. A. Tyutin, “Influence of Certain Radioprotective Preparations on the Motor-Evacuatory Function of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Healthy and Irradiated Rats”, in P.P. Saksonov, B.I. Davydov, editor, Problems of Space Biology, page 95

   We have located the origins and mechanisms of violence in the violating unbearable affective experience, which occurs as a consequence of failures of attunement or affective containment and in the projective, evacuatory psychological defences that then arise.

   2006, Richard Mizen, Mark Morris, On Aggression and Violence: An Analytic Perspective

plural evacuatories

1. archaicA purgative; a laxative.