Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of
bran .
Etymologies
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bran + -like
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Examples
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When acute, and characterized by high inflammation, with bright, smooth swelling, and spreading gradually and sometimes rapidly to surrounding parts; or when small vesicles appear on the inflamed parts, which dry up in little branlike scales and fall off.
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark
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_ -- This attacks the horse's head where the harness presses, and leads to dropping of the hair, leaving bald patches covered with a branlike scurf, without any eruption, heat, tenderness, swelling, or rigidity of the skin.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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