Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In medicine: Opposed to or checking peristaltic motion.
- Pertaining to or exhibiting antiperistalsis.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to anteperistalsis.
- adj. That blocks or stops peristalsis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Med.) Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.
Examples
“For the upward escape of food from the stomach an involuntary co-ordinated antiperistaltic cycle is necessary.”
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
“Such terrors would disgrace a cook-maid, or a toothless aunt -- when they fall from the lips of bearded and senatorial men, they are nauseous, antiperistaltic, and emetical.”
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