entericadj.n.

1764 R. Schomberg tr. T. Tronchin Treat. Colica Pictonum xvi. 87 The gastric and enteric [L. entericus] juice is obstructed.

1795 W. Vaughan Evid. Superior Efficacy Cinchona Flava 23 It [sc. Peruvian Bark] causes an increased Secretion of the Gastrick and Enterick Liquors.

1799 J. Walker On Necessity for Contracting Cavities 14 It mingles with the chyle, itself composed of the nutritive part of the aliment, of saliva, of gastric, pancreatic, enteric and bilious fluids, &c.

1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 511/2 The hands and feet are cold and clammy; the sensation they convey to the touch resembles that observed in persons labouring under enteric inflammation.

1847 Lancet 7 Aug. 156/2 At other times, the enteric morbid action passes through the stages of inflammation, ulceration, and gangrene.

1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 523 These plexuses are distributed on the enteric tube.

1895 Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. & Therapeutics 8 5 An aberrant condition of which [sc. peristalsis] may be induced either by disease, by the irritant action of the enteric contents, or by a perverted neurotic or vascular supply.

1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo iv. 44 Pneumonia and enteric troubles are the great sources of loss.

1941 Jrnl. Pediatrics 19 53 It may be due to other enteric bacteria which today are not generally recognized as enteric pathogens.

1991 Atlantic Feb. 12/2 Among this group were poultry scientists, enteric-disease specialists, veterinarians.

2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Aug. d5/2 The role of the enteric nervous system is to manage every aspect of digestion.

2013 Clean Slate Autumn 20/2 Pigs and chickens do not emit methane through enteric fermentation.

1849 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica (ed. 3) I. p. x Class VII. Cœliacs, or remedies acting on the digestive system... 1. Enterics.

1872 Lancet 17 Feb. 231/2 The characteristic eruption of typhus was noted in 400 out of the 411 cases admitted, or in 97·3 per cent.; and the eruption of enteric was observed in 162 out of the 308 admitted, or in 52·5 per cent.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 5/2 The preventive inoculation for enteric.

1913 Public Health 26 163/2 Not a single one of the enterics originated there [sc. a flooded area of Norwich].

1926 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts 99 Two of the worst scourges, enteric and tetanus.

1946 Jrnl. Hygiene 44 435/1 The negatives consist chiefly of stools from the cases finally classified as ‘clinical enterics’.

2001 T. Travers Gallipoli 1915 v. 108 He was sent home on 23 July, allegedly suffering from sunstroke or enteric.

1956 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 June 1378/2 It is not difficult to imagine the sources from which staphylococci or the enterics..may get into the feed.

1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iv. 540 Enterobacteriaceae..is a large family of related Gram-negative facultative bacilli (rods) that inhabit the large intestine of man and animals: together with the vibrios, they are often loosely called the enteric bacilli or simply ‘enterics’.

1998 J. T. Barrett Microbiol. & Immunol. Concepts xv. 56 The initial step is based on the use of special differential media that favor the isolation of an enteric from the numerous population of normal bowel flora.

2012 Food Res. Internat. 45 577/2 A number of studies support the hypothesis that contamination of vegetables by enterics may not simply be a random contamination event.

1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 556/2 In gastric and enteric fevers, also, diarrhœa is a frequent symptom.

1847 G. B. Wood Treat. Pract. Med. I. 315 I propose the title of Enteric fever with some diffidence.

1915 Lancet 13 Nov. 1086/2 The agglutination test..gave a positive result in practically every case of enteric fever.

2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians (2003) xxiii. 360 In December 1871 Bertie went down with enteric fever.