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Definition of Lumpy jaw
1. Noun. The commonest and least severe form of actinomycosis; affects the face and neck regions.
Medical Definition of Lumpy jaw
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lumpy Jaw
Literary usage of Lumpy jaw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1899)
"SALE—ANIMAL FIT POK HUMAN FOOD—"lumpy jaw- —IMPLIED WARRANTY.--In selling a fat
steer to a retail butcher, whose business Is to buy and slaughter cattle, ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"Have you ever in any way come in contact with horses or cattle afflicted with "lumpy
jaw" or any disease simulating it, such as old ulcers or swellings ..."
3. Transactions of the American Dental Association at Its ... Annual Session by American Dental Association (1885)
"At least two cases have been reported during the past few months of ordinary
alveolar abscess which were gravely declared to be "lumpy" jaw, and similar to ..."
4. Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday (1913)
"... or lumpy-jaw. It has been brought into the Zoological Park five times, by
specimens shipped from Colorado, Texas, Wyoming and Montana. ..."
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