Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or affected with leucophlegmacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.
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- adjective medicine, archaic Having a
dropsical habit of body, with a white bloatedskin .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The form of body peculiarly subject to phthisical complaints was the smooth, the whitish, that resembling the lentil; the reddish, the blue-eyed, the leucophlegmatic, and that with the scapulae having the appearance of wings: and women in like manner, with regard to the melancholic and subsanguineous, phrenitic and dysenteric affections principally attacked them.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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P.S. I forgot to tell you, that my right ancle pits, a symptom, as I take it, of its being oedematous, not leucophlegmatic.
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He told me t’other day, with great confidence, that my case was dropsical; or, as he called it, leucophlegmatic: A sure sign, that his want of experience is equal to his presumption — for, you know, there is nothing analogous to the dropsy in my disorder — I wish those impertinent fellows, with their ricketty understandings, would keep their advice for those that ask it.
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