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- noun Plural form of
phlegmon .
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Examples
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And from these circumstances it seems probable, that the matters secreted by the new vessels formed in all kinds of phlegmons, or pustles, are not contagious, till they have acquired something from the atmosphere, or from the gas produced by putrefaction; which will account for some phenomena in the lues venerea, cancer, and of other contagious secretions on the skin without fever, to be mentioned hereafter.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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There is a greater sympathy between the external skin and the meninges of the brain, than between the cellular membrane and those meninges; whence erysipelas is more liable to be preceded or attended, or succeeded, by delirium than internal phlegmons.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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And very numerous and large phlegmons commonly succeed the too hasty cure of it by other means.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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