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Definition of Fulminant
1. Adjective. Sudden and severe. "Fulminant fever"
Definition of Fulminant
1. a. Thundering; fulminating.
Definition of Fulminant
1. Adjective. exploding or detonating ¹
2. Adjective. (pathology) Occurring suddenly, rapidly, and with great severity or intensity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fulminant
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Fulminant
1. Occurring suddenly, with lightning-like rapidity, and with great intensity or severity; applied to certain pains, e.g., those of tabes dorsalis. Compare: fulgurant. Origin: L. Fulmino, pp. -atus, to hurl lightning, fr. Fulmen, lightning (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fulminant
Literary usage of Fulminant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the nervous system by Jerome Keating Bauduy (1892)
"... Fever— Malarial Fevers—Three Forms: Simple, fulminant, and Purpuric—Clinical
History —First Form—Symptoms—Brain, Spinal, ..."
2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1908)
"As a rule it is possible to separate by means of the patients' histories and the
clinical appearances, the fulminant cases which terminate fatally, ..."
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