catarrhal
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The catarrhal stage, characterized by runny mucous, is highly contagious.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2013
Into Walter Reed Hospital, reportedly with heart trouble, went Multimillionaire Major Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. Out of the Philadelphia Naval Hospital after a bout with catarrhal fever came Lieut.
From Time Magazine Archive
Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spuming his lines with catarrhal intakes of breath punctuating the bolts of rhetoric, Branagh is a whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible; he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
DEFINITION.—R�theln is an acute infectious disease, presenting an eruption of reddish macules upon the skin, accompanied by mild catarrhal symptoms, and usually producing but slight disturbance of the general system.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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