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Definition of Thoracic actinomycosis
1. Noun. A serious form of actinomycosis that affects the chest.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thoracic Actinomycosis
Literary usage of Thoracic actinomycosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Clinics: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures by Henry W. Cattell (1901)
"To be more specific, intra- thoracic actinomycosis may extend to the spinal ...
In not a few cases of pulmonary and thoracic actinomycosis metastasis by way ..."
2. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1906)
"thoracic actinomycosis is characterized by a cough with more or less profuse,
often fetid expectoration; by fever, which is usually present and often the ..."
3. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"Branching, gram-positive filaments seen when a sulphur granule is crushed and
stained by Gram's method. Magnification 1300. thoracic actinomycosis. ..."