Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of, pertaining or relating to, or affected by diphtheria: as, diphtheritic laryngitis; a diphtheritic membrane; a diphtheritic patient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.
- adjective Having characteristics resembling those of diphtheria.
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- adjective medicine Resembling or related to
diphtheria .
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Examples
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Bertha, in her expiring effort for breath, had raised upon her knees in bed, when suddenly, as in the other case, she raised her hands, her face illumined with the 'light that is not seen upon sea or land,' and she said in a strong, clear whisper -- for her vocal cords were so involved in the diphtheritic membranes that her voice was gone completely -- 'O mamma!
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She was in the last extremity with diphtheritic croup.
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Many of the best physicians of the day consider true or membranous croup to be due to this diphtheritic membranous disease thus located in the larynx or trachea.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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If the mouth is examined at this time, an accumulation of mucus and patches of diphtheritic or false membranes are found.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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A diphtheritic patient should be quarantined, and everything connected with the sick room thoroughly disinfected.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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There are several varieties of proctitis recognized as the exciting cause of abscess and fistula, namely, traumatic, dysenteric, diphtheritic, gonorrheal, catarrhal, etc.
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The difficulty here again is that if we wait till the diphtheritic membrane covers the whole throat, antitoxin will not be of much use.
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Yet to-day we have people who do not believe in vaccination or in anti-diphtheritic serum.
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It is called "false" croup, because "true" croup is always diphtheritic and is a very serious disease.
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It is characterized by a catarrhal and diphtheritic inflammation of the mucous membranes of the head.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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