enteric

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: en=ter=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

enteric, a. [Gr. . See Enteritis.].

 Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal.  [1913 Webster]

Enteric fever (Med.), typhoid fever.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

enteric, adj. & n.
--adj. of the intestines.
--n. (in full enteric fever) typhoid.

Derivative

enteritis n.

Etymology

Gk enterikos (as ENTERO-)

THESAURUS

enteric

abdominal, anal, appendical, cardiac, cecal, colic, colonic, coronary, duodenal, gastric, ileac, intestinal, jejunal, mesogastric, pyloric, rectal, splanchnic, visceral