Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Soft or semi-fluid, as the substance of a poultice; pulpy.
- Macerated; pulpified; partly digested: as, a pultaceous mass of food in the stomach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.
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- adjective Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.
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Examples
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The mucous membrane was soft, pultaceous, and easily removed, tinged with dark green bile.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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It is to be observed that as the cecum is only three inches in length and two and a half in diameter, and as its contents are necessarily propelled in opposition to gravity, a slight casualty will hinder or obstruct the upward movement of the pultaceous mass of the effete ingesta.
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If double boiler be used no water need be added, and thus the rice will be dry and not pultaceous.
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon
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Some of them are fatty, some of them are pultaceous, some of them are cancerous, and some of them he calls honey tumors, because of a honey-like humor they contain.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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It is seldom larger than a pea, and contains a pultaceous mass like inspissated pus.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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When a pultaceous magma of carbonate of lime accumulates in the bladder it must be washed out by injecting water through a catheter by means of
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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It is this material which constitutes the soft, white, pultaceous mass that sometimes fills the bladder to repletion and requires to be washed out.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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With the pultaceous deposit in the bladder there is incontinence of urine, which dribbles away continually and keeps the hair on the inner side of the thighs matted with soft magma.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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[12] Mr.E. H. E.mes reports (in _The Auk_, vol.vii. p. 287) that, on dissecting a humming-bird, about two days old, he found sixteen young spiders in its throat, and a pultaceous mass of the same in its stomach.
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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In some cases the bladder contains and may be even distended by a soft, pultaceous mass made up of minute, round granules of carbonates of lime and magnesia.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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When Ernest is off on word chases
His appetite's often voracious.
For convenience' sake
He'll blend up a shake
And suck down his suppers pultaceous.
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April 26, 2017