† ˈexiture Obs.
In 5 exitour.
[ad. med.L. exitūr-a, f. exīre: see exit n. Cf. OF. exiture.]
1. Passage out or forth.
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man i. 13 Children..hauing in the vtmost part of the chinne a lineall ascense..for the exiture of Ligamentes. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 154 The Sphincter..a round muscle..compassing about the end of the right gut to hinder the exiture of the excrements. |
2. A running abscess. [So in OF.]
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 52 (MS. A) His cure schal be seid in þe chapitle of apostymes & of exitours [MS. B exitures]. 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. xxi. 33 An exiture is everye kynde of an aposteme. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 722 It cures green wounds..and exitures. [1811 Hooper Med. Dict., Exitura, a running abscess. 1860 Mayne Exp. Lex., Exitura. 1884 Syd. Soc. Lex., Exitura.] |
Hence † exiˈtural a., of or pertaining to an ‘exiture’ or abscess.
| 1758 J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 312 Accidents, that accompany exitural Tumours. Ibid. 321 A small exitural Tumour appeared in the Ham. |