Definition of Phlegmons

1. Noun. (plural of phlegmon) ¹

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Definition of Phlegmons

1. phlegmon [n] - See also: phlegmon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phlegmons

phlegmatizers
phlegmatizes
phlegmatizing
phlegmier
phlegmiest
phlegmily
phlegmon
phlegmonous
phlegmonous abscess
phlegmonous cellulitis
phlegmonous enteritis
phlegmonous erysipelas
phlegmonous gastritis
phlegmonous mastitis
phlegmonous ulcer
phlegmons (current term)
phlegms
phlegmy
phleme
phleomycin
phleomycins
phleum
phlobaphene
phloem
phloemic
phloemlike
phloems
phlogistian
phlogistians
phlogistic

Literary usage of Phlegmons

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

1. Clinical Memoirs on the Diseases of Women: By G. Bernutz and E. Goupil by Gustave Louis Richard Bernutz, Jean Ernest Goupil, Alfred Meadows, New Sydenham Society (1866)
"It cannot, however, be exactly circumscribed, partly because of the extreme pain of examination, partly because these phlegmons project so very little into ..."

2. Clinical gynæcology, medical and surgical by John Marie Keating (1894)
"In severe cases we sometimes see phlegmons, abscesses, and fistulas ... phlegmons and abscesses of this region may be divided into three classes : 1, ..."

3. A Manual of Determinative Bacteriology by Frederick Dixon Chester (1901)
"In the mouth, intestines, and on the surface of the body; in suppurating wounds; sometimes associated with peritonitis, appendicitis, in phlegmons, ..."

4. Diseases of the Digestive Organs: With Special Reference to Their Diagnosis by Charles Dettie Aaron (1921)
"phlegmons OF THE BUCCAL FUNDUS. Ludwig's Angina.—This purulent affection occurs in the loose vascular and lymphatic connective tissue of the buccal fundus ..."

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