Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of the perichondrium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Inflammation of the perichondrium.
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- noun medicine
inflammation of theperichondrium
Etymologies
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Examples
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The utmost caution should be used to avoid deep cauterizations; they are almost certain to set up perichondritis which will increase the stenosis.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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_Chronic subglottic edema_, often the result of perichondritis, may require linear cauterization at various times, to reduce its bulk, after the underlying cause has been removed.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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In other most unfortunate cases I have seen perichondritis of the laryngeal cartilages with subsequent stenosis occurring after the roentgenotherapy.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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_Acute laryngeal stenosis in infants, from laryngeal perichondritis_, may be a delayed result of traumatism to the laryngeal cartilages during delivery.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Great caution, as mentioned above, must be used to avoid setting up perichondritis.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Suturing of the skin to the trachea should never be done, for the sutures soon tear out and often set up a perichondritis of the tracheal cartilages, with resulting difficult decannulation.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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a perichondritis, or the later ulceration and all the phenomena following the mixed pyogenic infections.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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You'll swallow it one day, and then you'll get perichondritis and die. "
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