aphtha

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In Cheshire the ailment known as aphtha or thrush, which affects the mouth or throat of infants, is not uncommonly treated in much the same manner.

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  1. In pathology, an eruption; an ulceration: used especially in the plural to denote small round ulcers, sometimes becoming confluent, and said in some cases to be preceded by vesicles which break. They occur upon the tongue, gums, inside of the lips, and palate. When Mycoderma vini (Oïdium albicans) is found in these ulcers, the disease is called thrush, or milk-thrush. Also aptha.
  2. Aphthæ epizoöticæ. foot-and-mouth disease (which see, under foot).
  3. Aphthæ tropicæ a digestive disorder, accompanied by an aphthous eruption, occurring in tropical regions.
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  • In Cheshire the ailment known as aphtha or thrush, which affects the mouth or throat of infants, is not uncommonly treated in much the same manner. —  The Golden Bough
  • Does this disease belong to aphtha? —  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • May not this disease be referred to aphtha, or to dysentery? —  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • Cheshire the ailment known as aphtha or thrush, which affects the mouth or throat of infants, is not uncommonly treated in much the same manner. —  The Golden Bough
  • Dysenteria, as well as tonsillitis and aphtha, are enumerated amongst the diseases of external membranes, because they are exposed either to the atmospheric air, which is breathed, and swallowed with our food and saliva; or they are exposed to the inflammable air; or hydrogen, which is generated in the intestines; both which contribute to produce or promote the contagious quality of these fluids; as mentioned in Class II. —  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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  1. New Latin, from Latin aphthæ, plural, from Greek ᾰφθαι, plural of ᾰφθα, an eruption, ulceration, from άπτειν, set on fire, inflame.
 

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