purge

(noun)

An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.

Related Terms

Examples of purge in the following topics:

  • Eating Disorders

    • Eating disorders are mental disorders defined by abnormal eating habits, such as bingeing, purging, and/or fasting.
    • Bulimia nervosa is characterized by recurrent binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors for the intake of food, such as purging.
    • A purge can include self-induced vomiting, excessive use of laxatives/diuretics, fasting, or excessive exercise.
    • The frequency and intensity of binge-purge episodes tends to escalate over time, enough so that many patients develop the ability to induce vomiting without mechanically triggering the gag reflex.
    • The binges must not be accompanied by compensatory purging behavior seen in bulimia nervosa.

  • The USSR

    • Stalin's Great Purge resulted in the execution or detainment of many "Old Bolsheviks" who had participated in the October Revolution with Lenin.
    • During the Great Purge, Lenin undertook a massive campaign of repression of the party, government, armed forces and intelligentsia, in which millions of so-called "enemies of the working class" were imprisoned, exiled or executed, often without due process.

  • Eating Disorders

    • The frequency and intensity of binge-purge episodes tends to escalate over time, enough so that many patients develop the ability to induce vomiting without mechanically triggering the gag reflex.
    • The combination of binge eating and purging generally places individuals at a normal body weight, distinguishing them from those with AN.

  • South America

    • Quick to purge any indigenous cultural practices that hindered their missionary intentions, many native artworks that were considered pagan were destroyed by Spanish explorers.

  • Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes and Mucosal Surfaces

    • Lymph nodes are filled with lymphocytes that purge infecting cells.

  • Sect

    • Adherents of a given faction may believe that for the achievement of their own political or religious project their internal opponents must be purged.

  • RBC Life Cycle

    • This process removes old and defective cells and continually purges the blood.

  • Uniform plant loading, flexible resources, and line/cellular flow layouts

    • Any car can be painted any color without having to purge hoses in switching from one color to another.

  • Demand-pull production system and quick setups to reduce lot sizes

    • Since the cost of chemical waste disposal was a major part of the cost of changing over a coating machine to make another product, 3M shortened the length of hoses that needed purging and redesigned the shape of the adhesive solution holding pan on the coating machine to be shallower. 3M also used quick-connect devices, disposable filters, and work teams to speed up setups.

  • Marxism-Leninism

    • This abuse of power by local leaders exacerbated the violent purges and terror campaigns carried out by Stalin against members of the Party deemed to be traitors.
    • Stalin unleashed the Great Terror campaign against alleged "socially dangerous" and "counterrevolutionary" persons that resulted in the Great Purge of 1936–38 during which 1.5 million people were arrested from 1937–38 and 681,692 of those were executed.