diphtheritic
Americanadjective
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pertaining to diphtheria.
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affected by diphtheria.
Other Word Forms
- antidiphtheritic adjective
- diphtheritically adverb
- nondiphtherial adjective
- nondiphtheric adjective
- nondiphtheritic adjective
- postdiphtherial adjective
- postdiphtheric adjective
- postdiphtheritic adjective
- prediphtheritic adjective
- pseudodiphtherial adjective
- pseudodiphtheric adjective
- pseudodiphtheritic adjective
Etymology
Origin of diphtheritic
1840–50; earlier diphtherit(is) ( diphtheria, -itis ) + -ic
Example Sentences
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It also occasionally presents the evidences of catarrhal or diphtheritic inflammation.
From Project Gutenberg
The mucous membrane of the larynx is sometimes found to have been the seat of catarrhal or diphtheritic inflammation, and sometimes also of ulceration.
From Project Gutenberg
Laryngitis may sometimes occur in the course of typhoid fever, and when it assumes the diphtheritic form and runs on to the formation of ulcers is a very serious complication of typhoid fever, as it is not infrequently accompanied by oedema of the glottis and gives rise to the necessity for tracheotomy.
From Project Gutenberg
Murchison says he has known the symptoms of and lesions of dysentery to coexist with those of typhoid fever in several cases, and Liebermeister asserts that diphtheria of the intestinal mucous membrane is an occasional sequel to severe cases, especially when other mucous membranes are the seat of diphtheritic inflammation.
From Project Gutenberg
In two instances he found a layer of diphtheritic deposit over the mucous membrane of the lower part of the ileum.
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