Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Inflammation of a vein.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Inflammation of a vein.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology Inflammation of a vein, usually in the legs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) Inflammation of a vein.
WordNet 3.0
- n. inflammation of a vein (usually in the legs)
Examples
“Vanity aside, varicose veins can also be very painful, especially if you spend a lot of time standing, and if left untreated, can lead to skin damage red and brown skin near the ankles, venous eczema, leg ulcers or even phlebitis, which is clotting in the vein.”
“Patients with travel ailments such as phlebitis or varicose veins should refrain massage.”
“He asked about her phlebitis and her gall bladder, and whether her gout was acting up.”
“I have phlebitis from my buttocks to my thigh it hurst a lot.”
“She had a radical mastectomy, phlebitis of the arm and scoliosis...”
The Huffington Post: Chie Davis: Sitting Down with Victoria Rowell
“Because there is greater blood flow through the central veins than through the peripheral veins (i.e., in the arms, hands, legs and feet), chemotherapy can be administered through the central lines with less risk of causing chemical phlebitis (inflammation of a vein).”
The Huffington Post: Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Breast Cancer Phase Two: Portacath Insertion
“After a routine operation on her leg for phlebitis, from which her doctors fully expected her to recover, she refused to walk or make any effort to get better, despite the danger of developing a blood clot.”
“I was told she had a chest infection and phlebitis.”
The Guardian: Ann Thwaite: Why I was happy when my parents died
“He called a doctor he knew at Johns Hopkins, and asked him, “Is there such a thing as phlebitis on both legs?””
“The doctor replied, “There is a migratory phlebitis which comes as a result of pancreatic cancer.””
Lists
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words beginning with P
peripatetic, pearlescent, perfunctory, palliate, permafrost, prosthetic, pliant, pluvious, percussion, procrastinate, progeria, prognathism and 49 more...
Tweets
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pspealman I originally spotted this one in my Compact Spanish Translation Dictionary ... coincidentally my actual dictionary lacks it.
Is it in the Spanish dictionary because of a need for me to know it, is it a common characteristic to Spanish speaking people? One day you speak too many double L's as Y's and that vein on the leg just goes nuts? Oct 1, 2008