hyperemia
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of hyperemia
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Certainly attention to any part of the skin surface causes a tingling and hyperemia may follow.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
As a consequence of the persistent hyperemia, too many trophic impulses are sent down.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
At the autopsy are found hyperemia of the arachnoid, and slight chronic leptomeningitis and pachymeningitis.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
As a rhinologist he insists on the nasal conditions that underlie the affection yet suggests that the nasal hyperemia may be due to reflexes of one kind or another.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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 Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
