PHLEBITIS
\flɛbˈa͡ɪtɪs], \flɛbˈaɪtɪs], \f_l_ɛ_b_ˈaɪ_t_ɪ_s]\
Definitions of PHLEBITIS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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In medical jurisprudence. An inflammation of the veins, which may originate in septicemia (bacterial blood- poisoning) or pywmia (poisoning from pus), and is capable of being transmitted to other tissues, as, the brain or the muscular tissue of the heart. In the latter case, an inflammation of the heart is produced which is called "endocarditis" and which may result fatally. See Succession of Bidwell, 52 La. Ann. 744, 27 South. 2S1.
By Henry Campbell Black
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fl[=e]-b[=i]'tis, n. inflammation of a vein.--ns. PHLEB'OLITE, a calcareous concretion found in a vein; PHLEBOL'OGY, science of the veins; PHLEB'ORRHAGE, venous hemorrhage.--adjs. PHLEBOTOM'IC, -AL.--v.t. PHLEBOT'OMISE.--ns. PHLEBOT'OMIST; PHLEBOT'OMY, act of letting blood. [Gr. phleps, phlebos, a vein.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Inflammation of the inner membrane of a vein, Endo-phlebitis, which sometimes follows blood-letting, and extends from the small wound made in that operation to the neighbouring parts of the venous system. The symptoms are, first, inflammation in the punctured part; and, afterwards, a knotty, tense, painful cord, following the direction of the vessel, and accompanied with more or less fever, according to the extent of the inflammation, the nervous symptoms, &c. Phlebitis, also, sometimes supervenes on the ligature or excision of varices; after amputation, gun-shot wounds, delivery (Uterine Phlebitis, Locho-metro-phlebitis, Metro-phlebitis puerperalis, Phlebitis uterina, Metritis venosa), the ligature of the umbilical cord, &c. It may terminate by resolution, suppuration, ulceration, or gangrene.
By Robley Dunglison
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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