Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as diphtheritic.

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Examples

  • Diphtheria is often complicated by diphtheric myocarditis (toxic damage to heart muscles) and neuritis (toxic damage to peripheral nerves).

    Chapter 2 2000

  • - Adsorbed vaccine (diphtheric and tetanic toxoid and killed bacterial vaccine against pertussis), ampoule with ready to use solution.

    Chapter 4 1993

  • Why do you sit up all night with a case of confluent smallpox, or suck away the poisonous membrane from a diphtheric throat, as I hear you did only last week?

    The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

  • When Scarlet Fever is complicated -- as it sometimes is -- with diphtheria, the diphtheric membrane is very apt to travel into the wind-pipe, and thus to cause diphtheric croup, it is almost sure, when such is the case, to end in death.

    Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844

  • Fever, _if it be not malignant_, and, _if it be not complicated with diphtheric-croup_, and if certain rules be strictly followed, is also equally amenable to treatment.

    Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844

  • The deaths from diphtheria are generally from diphtheric croup, if there be no croup, there is, as a rule, frequent recovery.

    Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844

  • When a child dies from such a complication, the death might truly be said to be owing to the diphtheric croup, and not to the Scarlet Fever, for if the diphtheric croup had not occurred, the child would, in all probability, have been saved.

    Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children Pye Henry Chavasse 1844

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