eliminative
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At the other extreme are so-called eliminative materialists, who question whether anything is really conscious, including humans.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 4, 2017
The U.S. was told what his wife read to him, what music he heard and how it was with his eliminative processes.
From Time Magazine Archive
To interfere with the eliminative function of the skin by absolutely clogging the pores for a period of several hours means death.
From Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden
The following liver-persuading knights-errant are prescribed and ordered by disciples of Hippocrates, Galen, Herodicus, and Iccus, to treat with that digestive and eliminative monarch, the Liver—usually at night-time, that the family may not be disturbed.
From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison
In this way originates chronic disease, which means that the cells have become incapable of arousing themselves to acute eliminative effort in the form of inflammatory febrile reactions.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
