intestinally

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Inside the gut where the body digests and absorbs food

adverb
/ɪnˈtɛstɪnəli/

Specialized

: intestinalmente

The doctor explained that her symptoms were intestinally related to her recent diet changes.

Examples

You have something going on intestinally and you're too proud to stop at a Walgreen's or a CVS to deal with it.

CHiPS (2017)
Gastro-intestinally challenged! Behind Joe, out a large window: painters on a scaffold.

Fiction book (1993)
Like the jaded, intestinally ruined expatriate who sits on his hygienic "throne," Lorrain's reader absorbs highly seasoned confections and is disoriented while staying at home.

Academic text (1991)
She felt discomfort intestinally after eating the spoiled food.
He was advised to consume probiotics to improve his health intestinally.

Surface Forms

intestinally positive

Morphology

intestinally = intestinal (transparent) = intestine + al + ly

Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'intestinal', a regular and predictable process.

Etymology

Intestinally comes from intestinal, which traces back to a Latin word meaning 'internal' or 'inside' and is directly linked to intestine, the long tube inside your body that digests food. So, to say something happens intestinally is to say it happens 'in or by the intestines', which explains the word's medical meaning.