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Definition of Serosities
1. serosity [n] - See also: serosity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Serosities
Literary usage of Serosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1868)
"At the May meeting M. Lionville described corpuscles from serosities of blisters
and burns, which are active, and capable of developing movements. ..."
2. The Internal Secretions: Their Physiology and Application to Pathology by Eugène Gley (1917)
"These serosities mix with the humors specially formed and separated by the glands.
... these serosities, not being pumped away as they should be, ..."
3. The Brain Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg, Rudolph Leonhard Tafel (1887)
"For Swedenborg states in his " Memorabilia," that " the large ventricles of the
cerebrum are places where serosities trickle dn\vn from the interstices ..."
4. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1857)
"... internal heat.f want of sleep, the characteristic vomitings and purgings,
which usually contain nothing more than the serosities of the blood. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"... and pleura may cause hemorrhagic effusions; the other, that similar bloody
serosities may occur with non-malignant abdominal disease. ..."
6. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1901)
"... processes from the cerebral ventricles that they may there receive the serosities
and transmit them through the olfactory bulbs to the nasal mucosa, ..."
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