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- noun Plural form of
hydatid .
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Examples
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‘You know, I daresay, that sheep occasionally become giddy — hydatids in the head, ’tis called, in which their brains become eaten up, and the animal exhibits the strange peculiarity of walking round and round in a circle continually.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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Evidence of pregnancy may also be afforded by the discharge from the uterus of an early ovum, of moles, hydatids, etc. Disease of the uterus and ovarian dropsy may be mistaken for pregnancy.
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If they contracted hydatids, typhoid fever, or other ailments, which thin our mining camps of the strong, lusty, careless youths, who could wonder?
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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Adams, commenting on this, has in mind hydatids, but it is evident that both Hippocrates and his translator and critic have mistaken hydatidiform disease of the ovum for hydatid disease of the womb.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott
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The dura mater was in a sound state, but the pia mater was full of blood and lymph; on it several hydatids, and towards the falx some marks of suppuration were observed.
An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson
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Remains of the uppermost tubes sometimes forming hydatids. c.
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Remains of the uppermost tubes sometimes forming hydatids. c.
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These are termed the appendices vesiculosæ (hydatids of Morgagni).
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In the male the Müllerian ducts atrophy, but traces of their anterior ends are represented by the appendices testis (hydatids of Morgagni), while their terminal fused portions form the utriculus in the floor of the prostatic portion of the urethra (Fig. 1110, C).
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He discovered that the staggers, a disease of sheep, is due to hydatids in the brain.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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