See Also: gigerium(medicine)

vitalistic (iou) and gigerium (medicine)


vitalistic (iou)



vitalistic adjective. M19.
[formed as VITALISM + -ISTIC.]
Of, pertaining to, involving, or denoting vitalism or a hypothetical vital principle. M19.
Pertaining to or denoting the germ theory, esp. in its relation to fermentation. Hist. L19.
Art. Pertaining to a style of modernist Art characterized by vivid or kinetic representationalism. M20.

gigerium (medicine)


gigerium


Origin: NL, fr. L. Gigeria, pl, the cooked entrails of poultry.

<anatomy, ornithology> The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.

Source: Websters Dictionary