noun
- A medical condition characterized by the passage of undigested food in the stool; a form of diarrhea in which food is not properly digested.
Usage: medical; archaic or technical; plural of lientery
Examples
- The physician documented several cases of lienteries in his patient records.
- Lienteries were more commonly discussed in older medical texts before modern digestive science.
- The condition of lienteries indicates that food is passing through the digestive system too quickly.
- Historical medical literature frequently mentions lienteries as a sign of digestive distress.