Crossword-Solution: LEPTO
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LEPTO | anagram | POLTE, TELOP, TPOLE |
We have 10 clues for the answer “LEPTO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Prefix meaning "slender" | 1 answer |
| Slender: pref. | 1 answer |
| Thin; fine: Comb. form | 1 answer |
| Weak: Comb. form | 1 answer |
| Weak: Prefix | 1 answer |
| Thin: Comb. form | 3 answers |
| small comb form | 4 answers |
| Water-nymph | 6 answers |
| Water nymph | 10 answers |
| comb form small | 11 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCEMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LEPTO (5)
Thus a localised meningitis spreading to the brain may set up a cerebral abscess; a sinus phlebitis may give rise to a purulent lepto-meningitis; or a cerebral abscess bursting into the sub-arachnoid space may produce meningitis.
The clinical features are similar to those of acute general lepto-meningitis, and in sporadic cases the diagnosis is only completed by discovering the diplococcus intracellularis in the fluid withdrawn by lumbar puncture.
When the disease is of the _meningeal type_, symptoms of general purulent lepto-meningitis assert themselves, and soon come to dominate the clinical picture.
When the theca of the cord is directly infected the spinal symptoms predominate at first, but as the condition progresses it involves the cerebral membranes, and symptoms of acute general lepto-meningitis ensue.
All the forms have the same life-history as the _lepto_ forms of that group, so that there is no longer any trace of sexual organs.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1977–2009).