Definition of "pituitous" []

• Consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus. (adjective)

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• "Fortieth, dejections pituitous, white, rather frequent; sweated abundantly all over; had a complete crisis."
• "The men must necessarily be well braced and slender, and they must have the discharges downwards of the alimentary canal hard, and of difficult evacuation, while those upwards are more fluid, and rather bilious than pituitous."
• "Persons who are bilious in the stomach bear these changes worst, while those who are pituitous, upon the whole, bear the want of food best, so that they suffer the least from being restricted to one meal in the day, contrary to usage."