hyperemia
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The usual excuse for not wearing wool is that it produces hyperemia of the skin with itchy discomfort, but this, as a rule, is only passing and is due to unaccustomedness.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Certainly attention to any part of the skin surface causes a tingling and hyperemia may follow.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The physical effect is a considerable hyperemia, but the effect upon the patient's mind is especially interesting, the unusualness of the mode of application adding decidedly to the effect.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
At the autopsy are found hyperemia of the arachnoid, and slight chronic leptomeningitis and pachymeningitis.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Alterations.—The chief alteration of influenza occurs in the digestive tract, and consists in hyperemia, infiltration, and swelling of the mucous membrane, and especially of the Peyer's patches near the ileocecal valve.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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