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Definition of Miliary
1. a. Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.
2. n. One of the small tubercles of Echini.
Definition of Miliary
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to millet seeds ¹
2. Adjective. (medicine) Having small lesions that are the shape and size of millet seeds ¹
3. Noun. (zoology) One of the small tubercles of Echinus sea urchins. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Miliary
1. made up of many small projections [adj]
Medical Definition of Miliary
1.
1. Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.
2.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miliary
Literary usage of Miliary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1894)
"He gives the same account of it as the observers in England and Ireland, except
that he does not describe miliary eruptions and describes jaundice in ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"They further made the observation that in every case of general miliary tuberculosis
somewhere in the body an older focus of caseous degeneration was to be ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"Speaking histologically, miliary tuberculosis is nothing else than a ...
ACUTE miliary TUBERCULOSIS The modern knowledge of this remarkable form dates from ..."
4. Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"Statistics relating to the habitual presence of miliary aneurisms in ... Cases in
which cerebral hemorrhage does not depend on rupture of miliary aneurisms. ..."
5. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1913)
"In the lungs, for instance, without consolidation and without cavity, miliary
tuberculosis may be strongly suspected, but not easily proved. ..."
6. A Treatise on the practice of medicine by Roberts Bartholow (1898)
"Acute miliary tuberculosis is a febrile affection due to the deposit, generally,
... The gray granulation, or miliary tubercle, consists of a fine ..."
7. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1921)
"Spleen: Splenomegaly undetermined type; probably miliary tuberculosis. ...
miliary tubercles and miliary abscesses. miliary tuberculosis and granulo- mata ..."
8. A Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Including Intermitting, Remitting, and by Alexander Philips Wilson Philip (1800)
"Of the Febrile States in. which the miliary Eruption most frequently appears.
It is when debility prevails that the miliary eruption 'is most apt to shew ..."
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