Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hip-joint disease (which see, underdisease ).
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Examples
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Was it not a conceivable thing that the divine grace might show itself in different forms in a fresh young girl like Letitia, and in that poor thing he had visited yesterday, half-grown, half-colored, in bed for the last year with hip-disease?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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It is odd that Hayley, a delicate and heavy man suffering from hip-disease, should have taken so little hurt.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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Their father, whom Judith had understood and passionately loved, died; Salome's young lover was killed in a railroad accident; and finally Salome herself developed symptoms of the hip-disease which, springing from a trifling injury, eventually left her a cripple.
Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912
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Little Doris, owing to some obscure threat of hip-disease, made much of her progress about the house in a footman's arms.
The Convert 1907
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Their father, whom Judith had understood and passionately loved, died; Salome's young lover was killed in a railroad accident; and finally Salome herself developed symptoms of the hip-disease which, springing from a trifling injury, eventually left her a cripple.
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Little Doris, owing to some obscure threat of hip-disease, made much of her progress about the house in a footman's arms.
The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907
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According to Patterson, 14.61 the late Mr. Symes told of a patient in North Scotland who, for incipient hip-disease, had the cautery applied at the Edinburgh Infirmary with resultant great relief.
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According to Patterson, the late Mr. Symes told of a patient in North Scotland who, for incipient hip-disease, had the cautery applied at the Edinburgh Infirmary with resultant great relief.
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Mlle. Valliere, the mistress of Louis XIV, was supposed to have both club-foot and hip-disease.
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Mlle. Vallière, the mistress of Louis XIV., was supposed to have both club-foot and hip-disease.
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