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SABURRA

Volume 18 · 64 words · 1823 Edition

in Medicine, usually denotes any collection of half putrid indigested matter in the stomach and intestines, by which the operation of digestion is impeded.

SABURRÆ, Gritts, in Natural History; a kind of stone, found in minute masses. They are of various colours, as stony and sparry gritts, of a bright or grayish white colour; red stony gritts; green stony gritts; yellow gritt; blackish gritts.