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Definition of Dejections
1. dejection [n] - See also: dejection
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dejections
Literary usage of Dejections
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"Diarrhœa preceded the characteristic dejections of dysentery in this case for
nearly two weeks. Dating from the latter, the duration to convalescence was 7 ..."
2. Clinical Medicine: A Systematic Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of by Austin Flint (1879)
"It is a mental relief to find foreign bodies in the dejections, when the fact of
their having ... The dejections should be examined daily for this object. ..."
3. Obstetrics: the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1852)
"Children that feed many times a day will generally be found to require several
alvine dejections per diem. A child that satisfies its instinctive desire for ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"If one is treating pus, blood, dejections, or the like, enough of the powder
should be added to form a paste of the mass, taking care to replace the first ..."
5. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1861)
"... blood, dejections, or the like, enough of the powder should IK- added to form
a paste of the mass, taking care to replace the first layer of po" another ..."