Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Occurring suddenly, rapidly, and with great severity or intensity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lightening and thundering; making a great stir.
- In pathology, developing suddenly: as, fulminant plague.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Thundering; fulminating.
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- adjective
exploding ordetonating - adjective pathology Occurring
suddenly ,rapidly , and with great severity or intensity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective sudden and severe
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In this condition, called fulminant hepatitis B, a liver transplant is the only treatment of merit.
DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001
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We also have the sadly familiar type described as the fulminant or, literally, "lightning-stroke" variety.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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That showed the death rate for patients with a type of infection called fulminant C.difficile colitis was 75 percent.
FOXNews.com 2011
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However, Katie developed a full-blown version known as fulminant infectious mononucleosis (FIM).
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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However, Katie developed a full-blown version known as fulminant infectious mononucleosis (FIM).
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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According to hospital representatives, tests at Holtz showed that the baby had neonatal giant cell hepatitis, which led to what doctors call fulminant liver failure.
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Jacob was immediately transferred to the Children's Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), where doctors diagnosed him with fulminant hepatic failure — liver failure with a very rapid onset.
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"As with all fulminant cases, this happened so fast," remembers transplant coordinator Cathy Goodsell.
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Clinical stabilization and effective B-lymphocyte depletion in the cerebrospinal fluid and peripheral blood of a patient with fulminant relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Clinical stabilization and effective B-lymphocyte depletion in the cerebrospinal fluid and peripheral blood of a patient with fulminant relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
sionnach commented on the word fulminant
Unfortunately, one almost always sees this word immediately followed by the word "hepatitis".
October 6, 2007
qms commented on the word fulminant
A bull fight’s a basically cruel event,
Provoking a harmless great ruminant
By pain and affronts
And daredevil stunts
To actions soon fatally fulminant.
September 25, 2018