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pig-bel (iou) and dutch oven furnace (medicine)


pig-bel (iou)



pig-bel noun. M20.
[Pidgin English pig-belly.]
Medicine. A severe necrotizing enterocolitis found in Papua New Guinea, caused by Clostridium welchii and associated with feasting on pork.

dutch oven furnace (medicine)


dutch oven furnace


One of the earliest types of furnaces, having a large, rectangular box lined with firebrick (refractory) on the sides and top. Commonly used for burning wood. Heat is stored in the refractory and radiated to a conical fuel pile in the centre of the furnace.