Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Destructive of the blood, especially of the blood-corpuscles.
Wiktionary
- adj. Producing hemolysis; destroying red blood cells.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. of or pertaining to hemolysis; causing hemolysis.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or involving or causing hemolysis
Examples
“Young children and the elderly are at highest risk for a potentially life-threatening complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome HUS, which includes kidney failure.”
“More Infections Often Tied to Food According to WHO, of more than 1,600 people sickened by this E. coli strain, 499 developed a rare and potentially fatal kidney-failure complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome—a complication that can shut down the kidneys and normally occurs in only a small percentage of people sickened during an E. coli outbreak.”
“While most healthy adults typically recover within a week, certain people--particularly young childrenand the elderly--can develop a complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome HUS that can lead toserious kidney damage and even death.”
Consumer Reports: Costco recalls Gorgonzola cheese tainted with E. coli
“While most healthy adults typically recover within a week, certain people -- particularly young childrenand the elderly -- can develop a complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome HUS that can lead toserious kidney damage and even death.”
Consumer Reports: Costco recalls Gorgonzola cheese tainted with E. coli
“Of those, 35 people had been hospitalized, including 11 with a serious complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome.”
Consumer Reports: Nestlé gets nod to start making new batches of Toll House cookies
“In some persons, particularly children under 5 years of age and the elderly, the infection can also cause a complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), in which the red blood cells are destroyed and the kidneys fail.”
“In some people, E. coli O157: H7 infection can cause a complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a life-threatening condition that is usually treated in an intensive care unit.”
“Most patients recover after a week or so, but 2 to 7 percent suffer a complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS, a destruction of red blood cells that can lead to kidney failure, seizures and death.”
“Ashley's kidneys were failing and her brain swelling from a medical complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome or HUS.”
“From a medical complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome or HUS.”
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chained_bear "He started by preparing medium using beef peptone broth with blood added, and then growing cultures of the pathogens they had isolated from cases—B. influenzae, Types 1 and II of the pneumococcus, and hemolytic streptococcus."
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 285 Feb 16, 2009