Definition of Pachydermic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms.


Medical Definition of Pachydermic

1. 1. Of or pertaining to the pachyderms. 2. Thick-skinned; not sensitive to ridicule. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pachydermic

pachydactylous
pachydactyly
pachyderm
pachyderma
pachyderma laryngis
pachyderma lymphangiectatica
pachyderma verrucosa
pachyderma vesicae
pachydermal
pachydermata
pachydermatocele
pachydermatosis
pachydermatous
pachydermatousness
pachydermia
pachydermic (current term)
pachydermoid
pachydermoperiostosis
pachydermoperiostosis syndrome
pachydermous
pachyderms
pachyglossal
pachyglossia
pachygnathous
pachygyria
pachyhymenia
pachyhymenic
pachyleptomeningitis
pachylosis
pachymenia

Literary usage of Pachydermic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mental Affections of Children: Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity by William Witherspoon Ireland (1898)
"Then in cretinism there is a tendency to premature ossification, especially of the basal cranial bones, while in the pachydermic cachexy we have a delay of ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1893)
"As causes of pachydermic changes in the larynx, especially in the ... Tuberculosis especially produces large pachydermic masses, which only ulcerate after a ..."

3. Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh by Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society (1893)
"As causes of pachydermic changes iu the larynx, especially in the inter-arytenoid commissure, ... Tuberculosis especially produces large pachydermic masses, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"There was a pachydermic infiltration of the mucous membrane of the larynx, ... Subjects of pachydermic cachexia, as a rule, show a slight dyspnoea and ..."

5. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1918)
""spontaneous infantile pachydermic cachexia," "atrophic ... myxedema," "pachydermic cachexia," etc. To the reader who is not familiar with all these matters ..."

6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1853)
"We are satisfied of the existence of two progressive series in the pachydermic groups, in the following way : WITHOUT PROBOSCIS. ..."

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