English Dictionary

purging place

名詞

廃用 古語

(premodern medicine, obsolete) A body part where excess humors are expelled. / (obsolete) A place where the body is purged of waste: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.

日本語の意味

（前近代医学で）余分な体液を排出するための体の部位 / （廃用）身体の排泄物を除去する場所、すなわち便所や仮設トイレ、または洗面所

Physicians in the 17th century sometimes referred to the liver as a purging place, thought to rid the body of excess humors.

17世紀の医師たちは肝臓をしばしば排泄器官と呼び、体内の余分な体液を排出すると考えていた。

意味（1）

(premodern medicine, obsolete) A body part where excess humors are expelled.

An aposteme gendred in þe purgynge places [sc. Latin tribus emunctoriis], þat is to say, of þe brayne vnder þe eres, of þe herte vnder þe arme holes, of þe lyuer in the schares.

意味（2）

(obsolete) A place where the body is purged of waste: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.

He buylt in all streetes in Rome publique purging places [sc. Spanish latrinas publicas].

意味（3）

(Christianity, now rare) The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.

Is this, said I, the Papists purging place?

purging places （ plural ）