stercoraceous

• “Can a more triumphant imbecile, a more abject dabster, a more stercoraceous bourgeois be found!”

  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

• “The gray _curculio_ walks with snout erect, snuffing the morning air; and here we fall upon a party of apprentice pill-beetles, learning to make up stercoraceous boluses, and forming nearly as long a line as the shopmen who are similarly engaged behind Holloway's counter in the”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.

• “The substance vomited is at first dark bilious matter, but if the case continues a long time, stercoraceous”

  An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time

• “Empyema is treated very thoroughly, liver abscess, ascites, which he warns must be emptied slowly, ileus especially when it reaches stercoraceous vomiting, and the various difficulties of urination, he divides them into dysuria, ischuria, and stranguria, are all discussed in quite modern fashion.”

  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages

• “Robson reports a case of strangulated hernia in the third month of pregnancy with stercoraceous vomiting.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

• “Relief was prompt, and the removal of the foreign body was followed by the issue of stercoraceous matter which had accumulated the six days it had remained in situ.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

• “She ate regularly, but every three days she experienced pain in the umbilicus and much intestinal irritation, followed by severe vomiting of stercoraceous matter; the pains then ceased and she cleansed her mouth with aromatic washes, remaining well until the following third day.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

• “One is reminded by Mr. Saintsbury's summary of many features which we have observed in the English academicism of the eighteenth century; the impoverished vocabulary, _e. g._, which makes itself evident in the annotations on the text of Spenser and other old authors; the horror of common terms, and the constant abuse of the periphrasis -- the "gelid cistern," the "stercoraceous heap," the”

  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

• “Finding that stercoraceous vomiting had just begun, and persuaded that the profound depression which others mistook for the effects of the disease, was mainly due to the injections of an infusion of tobacco which they had employed to induce relaxation.”

  Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians

• “But the dwarf undertaker does not on that account scorn stercoraceous fare: he feasts upon it like the other Onthophagi.”

  The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

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