Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, an eruption; an ulceration: used especially in the plural to denote small round ulcers, sometimes becoming confluent, and said in some cases to be preceded by vesicles which break.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the whitish specks called aphthæ.
- noun The disease, also called thrush.
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- noun medicine
thrush (the disease)
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Cheshire the ailment known as aphtha or thrush, which affects the mouth or throat of infants, is not uncommonly treated in much the same manner.
Chapter 55. The Transference of Evil. § 4. The Transference of Evil in Europe 1922
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In Cheshire the ailment known as aphtha or thrush, which affects the mouth or throat of infants, is not uncommonly treated in much the same manner.
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Cheshire the ailment known as aphtha or thrush, which affects the mouth or throat of infants, is not uncommonly treated in much the same manner.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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In Cheshire the ailment known as aphtha or thrush, which affects the mouth or throat of infants, is not uncommonly treated in much the same manner.
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May not this disease be referred to aphtha, or to dysentery?
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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I shall concisely mention four cases of aphtha, but do not pretend to determine whether they were all of them symptomatic or original diseases.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Dysenteria, as well as tonsillitis and aphtha, are enumerated amongst the diseases of external membranes, because they are exposed either to the atmospheric air, which is breathed, and swallowed with our food and saliva; or they are exposed to the inflammable air; or hydrogen, which is generated in the intestines; both which contribute to produce or promote the contagious quality of these fluids; as mentioned in Class II.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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It has been doubted, whether aphtha or thrush, which consists of ulcers in the mouth, should be enumerated amongst febrile diseases; and whether these ulcers are always symptomatic, or the consequence rather than the cause of the fevers which attend them.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Fourthly, those things which lubricate the vessels, along which extraneous bodies slide, as oil in the stone in the urethra, and to expedite the expectoration of hardened mucus; or which lessen the friction of the contents in the intestinal canal in dysentery or aphtha, as calcined hartshorn, clay, Armenian bole, chalk, bone-ashes.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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(vagina), in these cases, are not only irritable and itching, but are sometimes hot and inflamed, and are covered either with small pimples, or with a whitish exudation of the nature of aphtha (thrush), somewhat similar to the thrush on the mouth of an infant; then, the addition of glycerine to the lotion is a great improvement and usually gives much relief.
sionnach commented on the word aphtha
A minute painful ulcer on a mucous membrane of the mouth, often covered by a gray or white exudate.
October 9, 2007