fibrinous
Britishadjective
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Hassall took water that was “softened and purified” and combined it with the finest Smithfield beef to make the purest beef jelly and disgusting-sounding “fibrinous meat lozenges” – the energy balls of Victorian England.
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The fibrinous matter soon becomes detached and is coughed up.
From Project Gutenberg
The second form of pneumonia associated with diphtheria is from the beginning fibrinous in character.
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Very intense reddening of the whole conjunctiva, with much fibrinous and purulent secretion, etc.
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The exudation may be fibrinous or purulent; the latter only as a result of injuries by which foreign bodies or septic matter are introduced into the eye or in metastatic choroiditis.
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