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Definition of Superventions
1. supervention [n] - See also: supervention
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superventions
Literary usage of Superventions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1841)
"... nor those congestive superventions which are incident to every form of fever,
but to confine my observations to that peculiar modification of febrile ..."
2. Conversations on the Principal Subjects of Political Economy by William Elder (1882)
"Lord Bacon promised a diagram of the order of the sciences, progressive and
successive—a sort of table of their substitutions and superventions, ..."
3. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1851)
"... are simply sudden superventions of some complication, or a sudden exacerbation
of some previously existing complication, as pneumonia, pleurisy, Sic. ..."
4. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1823)
"But these complications or superventions are of frequent occurrence, and too
often throw the practitioner quite off his guard, at the commencement of this ..."
5. The Pathology of Emotions: Physiological and Clinical Studies by Charles Féré (1899)
"All these accidents were superventions in the wake of his reading a journal
article concerning a child bitten by a mad dog and which had agitated him. ..."
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