Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, inflammation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Inflammation of external parts of the body; erysipelatous inflammation.
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- noun medicine
inflammation ofexternal parts of thebody ;erysipelatous inflammation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Broussais remarks, "A single portion of ardent spirit taken into the stomach produces a temporary phlogosis."
Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society
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A torpid state of the system, listlessness and inactivity almost approaching to asphyxia from the diminished quantity of oxygen consumed by the lungs of the negro, form a striking contrast with the energetic, active, restless, persevering Anglo-Saxon, with a tendency to phlogosis and phthisis pulmonalis, from the surplus quantity of oxygen consumed by his lungs.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Various degrees of induration also results according to the intensity, the duration, and the frequency of the phlogosis.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
she commented on the word phlogosis
Inflammation; hence phlogosed, 'inflamed.'
August 23, 2008