metritis
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of metritis
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The changes which are designated under the term metritis consist in the first place of oedematous infiltration of the tissues.
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The first case is that of a woman with chronic metritis and prolapsus uteri.
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Franck records three instances of rapidly fatal metritis in cows, all of which had been poisoned from an adjacent cow with retained and putrid afterbirth.
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This practice should be strongly condemned on account of its dangerous consequences—metritis, peritonitis and often death.
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When, therefore, during an attack of septic metritis a condition of laminitis supervenes, we are justified in attributing it to the escape of septic matter from the already infected uterus.
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