Crossword-Solution: SUBSULTUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Subsultus | n. | A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion. |
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| irregular motion | 20 answers |
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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
ZAEMCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SUBSULTUS (5)
That painful as well as agitating _subsultus_--that involuntary twitching and cramp in the muscles of the limbs and abdomen which often characterizes this form of the opium malady, by degrees gets lulled as under a charm, and it may not even be necessary to repeat the dose in two and a half hours to remove it so entirely that the patient gets ten or fifteen minutes of refreshing sleep.
The startings, or _subsultus tendinum_, now became gradually weaker and weaker; his hinder parts were fixed in death, and in a minute or two more his head and fore-legs ceased to stir.
Similar to this in a less degree is the subsultus tendinum, or starting of the tendons, in fevers with debility; these actions of the muscles are too weak to move the limb, but the belly of the acting muscles is seen to swell, and the tendon to be stretched.
The same putrid symptoms remained, and a _subsultus tendinum_ came on: his stools were more foetid; and so hot, that the nurse assured me she could not apply her hand to the bed-pan, immediately after they were discharged, without feeling pain on this account: The medicine and clysters were repeated.
His stools were less frequent; their heat likewise and peculiar _foetor_ were considerably diminished; his muttering was much abated, and the _subsultus tendinum_ had left him.