Crossword-Solution: PHLEGMASIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phlegmasia | n. | An inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of the internal organs. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “PHLEGMASIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| WHITE leg | 1 answer |
| Inflammation | 42 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
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eruption
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Sentences with PHLEGMASIA (5)
One other had swelled leg, or phlegmasia dolens, and one or two others did not recover as well as usual.
One other had swelled leg or phlegmasia dolens, and one or two others did not recover as well as usual.
Acetic Acid is a most efficient remedy applied to old irritable _varicose ulcers_ on the limbs of females who have suffered from _Phlegmasia Dolens_, (milk leg.) It may be applied as a wash to the part once or twice a day at the strength of 1-20th of the acid with water, or in the form of good cider vinegar.
Are we from these appearances to pronounce the eruption a phlegmasia of the skin and lungs, associated with a previous one of the stomach, and recommend the free use of venesection? Life may occasionally be prolonged, or at times saved by this means; but the disease will not be thereby materially arrested in its course, or modified in its appearance.
This may be due to thrombosis of a vein as in phlegmasia dolens (white leg), retardation of venous circulation as in varicose veins, or obstruction of a vein due to the pressure of an aneurism or tumour.