Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to phagedena or to its treatment; of the nature or character of phagedena: as, a. phagedenic ulcer or medicine.
- noun In medicine, an application that causes the absorption or the death and sloughing of fungous flesh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena.
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- adjective Relating to
phagedena .
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Examples
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When such an ulcer increases rapidly in size it is termed a phagedenic ulcer.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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And if the summer be dry, those diseases soon cease, but if rainy, they are protracted; and there is danger of any sore that there is becoming phagedenic from any cause; and lienteries and dropsies supervene at the conclusion of diseases; for the bowels are not readily dried up.
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These symptoms, varying in their degrees of violence, generally continue from one day to three or four, leaving ulcerated sores about the hands, which, from the sensibility of the parts, are very troublesome, and commonly heal slowly, frequently becoming phagedenic, like those from whence they sprung.
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These symptoms, varying in their degrees of violence, generally continue from one day to three or four, leaving ulcerated sores about the hands, which, from the sensibility of the parts, are very troublesome, and commonly heal slowly, frequently becoming phagedenic, like those from whence they sprung.
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No erysipelas attends them, nor do they shew any phagedenic disposition as in the other case, but quickly terminate in a scab without creating any apparent disorder in the cow.
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Many parts of his hands on the inside were chapped, and on the middle joint of the thumb of the right hand there was a small phagedenic ulcer, about the size of a large pea, discharging an ichorous fluid.
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These pustules, unless a timely remedy be applied, frequently degenerate into phagedenic ulcers, which prove extremely troublesome. 2 The animals become indisposed, and the secretion of milk is much lessened.
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Many parts of his hands on the inside were chapped, and on the middle joint of the thumb of the right hand there was a small phagedenic ulcer, about the size of a large pea, discharging an ichorous fluid.
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No erysipelas attends them, nor do they shew any phagedenic disposition as in the other case, but quickly terminate in a scab without creating any apparent disorder in the cow.
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These pustules, unless a timely remedy be applied, frequently degenerate into phagedenic ulcers, which prove extremely troublesome.
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