pannus
Americannoun
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Pathology.
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an abnormal vascular thickening of the cornea.
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an ingrowth of synovial material into a joint, as in rheumatoid arthritis.
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Meteorology. a group of ragged cloud fragments hanging below a cloud.
noun
Etymology
Origin of pannus
1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin; Latin: piece of cloth, rag ( cf. pane)
Example Sentences
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Fully half the cases of trachoma which occur are complicated by pannus, which is the name given to the affection when it has spread to the cornea.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
She seizes upon this canaille, washes it clean, and sews her tinsel and spangles over its villainies; purpureus assuitur pannus.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
But in all these writers cataracta seems to be included under the general term pannus, meaning opacities of every kind.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson
Pannonia they derived from the Latin pannus, cloth.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant
Two MS. copies of this pannus vere purpureus are in Mr. Murray's possession.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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