Crossword-Solution: PHLEBITIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phlebitis | n. | Inflammation of a vein. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “PHLEBITIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Inflammation of a leg vein | 1 answer |
| vein inflammation | 1 answer |
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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
EZAMCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PHLEBITIS (5)
Phlebitis had set in, and for a time I was in serious danger from the formation of a clot of blood in one of the arteries.
But after a severe attack of phlebitis following upon typhoid fever, in 1870-71, I was compelled to give up all the physical exercises that I loved best.
PHLEBITIS, INFLAMMATION OF THE VEINS.--Causes.--Some irritation of the vein, as a puncture or any other injury accompanied by infection.
THROMBO-PHLEBITIS AND THROMBOSIS IN VEINS #Thrombosis# is more common in veins than in arteries, because slowing of the blood-stream and irritation of the endothelium of the vessel wall are, owing to the conditions of the venous circulation, more readily induced in veins.
The most common cause of venous thrombosis, however, is inflammation of the wall of the vein--phlebitis.
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2010).