Obs. In 5 exitour. [ad. med.L. exitūr-a, f. exīre: see EXIT sb. Cf. OF. exiture.]

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  1.  Passage out or forth.

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1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, I. 12 b. Children … hauing in the vtmost part of the chinne a lineall ascense … for the exiture of Ligamentes.

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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.

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  2.  A running abscess. [So in OF.]

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c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 52 (MS. A). His cure schal be seid in þe chapitle of apostymes & of exitours [MS. B exitures].

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1543.  Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., II. xxi. 33. An exiture is everye kynde of an aposteme.

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1657.  Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 722. It cures green wounds, pestilent tumours and exitures [pr. exitnres].

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[1811.  Hooper, Med. Dict., Exitura, a running abscess.

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1860.  Mayne, Exp. Lex., Exitura.

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1884.  Syd. Soc. Lex., Exitura.]

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  Hence † Exitural a., of or pertaining to an ‘exiture’ or abscess.

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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.

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