Crossword-Solution: PHOSSY
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PHOSSY | anagram | HYSSOP |
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| gangrenous condition of the lower jawbone | 1 answer |
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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
MEZCAE
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eruption
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Sentences with PHOSSY (5)
Third Scene This gloomy place need not be a mine: it might just as well be a match-factory, with yellow phosphorus, phossy jaw, a large dividend, and plenty of clergymen shareholders.
Similar figures for phosphine cannot be given, because poisoning therewith is very rare or quite unknown: the cases of "phossy- jaw" in match factories being caused either by actual contact with yellow phosphorus or by inhalation of its vapour in the elemental state.
See _Phosphine_ Phosphorus and incandescent mantles, "compounds," in crude acetylene, in purified acetylene, detection and determination of, removal of, "Phossy-jaw," Photometer, jet of acetylene, Phylloxera, use of acetylene for, Physical properties of acetylene, Pickering, freezing-points of calcium chloride solutions, Pictet, freezing-points of dilute alcohol, purification of acetylene, Pintsch burners, Pipes, blow-off.
The inhalation of the fumes of phosphorus, as in making vermin-killers, etc., gives rise to 'phossy-jaw.' _Post-Mortem Appearances._--Softening of the stomach, hæmorrhagic spots on all organs and under the skin, fatty degeneration of liver, kidneys, and heart, blood-stained urine, phosphorescent contents of alimentary canal.
When I hear honourable members prating in the House about "Imperial questions," I think of the famished seamstress, the unemployed docker, the girl with the phossy jaw, whom the honourable gentleman "represents." When I read of the gorgeous stage-management of the royal pageants, I remember the graves of the Balaclava men, in the Manchester workhouse field, where the sods were spread out level over the neglected dead.