Definition of Subacute bacterial endocarditis

1. Noun. A chronic bacterial infection of the endocardium and heart valves; symptoms develop slowly.

Generic synonyms: Endocarditis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis

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subacidly
subacidness
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subacute
subacute bacterial endocarditis (current term)
subacute inclusion body encephalitis
subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis
subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
subacutely
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subadarship
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Literary usage of Subacute bacterial endocarditis

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

1. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1913)
"... in cases of subacute bacterial endocarditis (chronic malignant endocarditis, ... had suffered from subacute bacterial endocarditis and had spontaneously ..."

2. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"In general, subacute bacterial endocarditis follows in frequency the ... subacute bacterial endocarditis occurs much more frequently than acute bacterial ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Observations on subacute bacterial endocarditis, with special reference to easa that have become spontaneously bacteria-free. Tr. Internal. Cong. ..."

4. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1922)
"subacute bacterial endocarditis Definition.—subacute bacterial endocarditis is characterized anatomically by an infection of the endocardium and ..."

5. The Clinical Diagnosis of Internal Diseases by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1916)
"The clinical features of cases of subacute bacterial endocarditis that hare spontaneously become bacteria-free. Am. JM Sc., Philadelphia A ..."

6. Clinical medicine ; Tuesday clinics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1922)
"The clinical features of cases of subacute bacterial endocarditis that have spontaneously become bacteria free. Amer. Jour. Med. Sci., Philadelphia, 1913 ..."

7. Diseases of the Chest and the Principles of Physical Diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis, Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1920)
"... first described by Osier, is also known as subacute bacterial endocarditis, subacute streptococcus endocarditis, chronic malignant endocarditis, ..."

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