Crossword-Solution: PHAGEDENA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phagedena | n. | A canine appetite; bulimia. |
| Phagedena | n. | Spreading, obstinate ulceration. |
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| rapidly spreading ulcer that destroys tissues as it increases in size | 1 answer |
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The old plural of Eye.
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Sentences with PHAGEDENA (5)
Its primary symptoms are, a simple ulcer without induration, without elevated edges, and without phagedena.
PHAGEDENA, PHAGEDÆNA, faj-e-d[=e]'na, _n._ a sloughing ulcer, hospital gangrene.--_adjs._ PHAGED[=E]'NIC, PHAGEDÆ'NIC.
Phagedena has been used by medical writers in a very extensive sense, and has been made to comprehend diseases, which, strictly speaking, cannot be considered phagedenic.
Second, the noma, or penetrating phagedena, which extends deeply, penetrating sometimes perpendicularly down through the cellular substance to the muscular fascia; at other times, proceeding more irregularly, penetrating deeper at one part than another, and having its margins ending less abruptly in the neighbouring skin.
The penetrating phagedena is more difficult to cure; for, even after the diseased action is removed, the ulcer remains in an irritable, or overacting date.