phagedena

Or phag·e·dae·na

[faj-i-dee-nuh]

noun

Pathology.

1. a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.

Other Word Forms

• phagedenic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of phagedena¹

1650–60; < New Latin phagedaena < Greek phagédaina an ulcer, akin to phageîn to eat

Example Sentences

Phagedena, Phaged�na, faj-e-dē′na, n. a sloughing ulcer, hospital gangrene.—adjs.

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He taught, though this is a bit of knowledge supposed to come three centuries later into medicine and history, the true origin of chancre and phagedena.

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Its primary symptoms are, a simple ulcer without induration, without elevated edges, and without phagedena.

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In the twelfth volume of the “Transactions” of the same society he finds the record of the case of a soldier who lost his penis through gangrene induced by syphilitic phagedena.

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In the first volume of the Journal of Venereal and Cutaneous Diseases the writer reported a case of the complete loss of penis in a young man as a result of phagedena due to syphilis.

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