SPHACELUS
\sfˈe͡ɪsləs], \sfˈeɪsləs], \s_f_ˈeɪ_s_l_ə_s]\
Definitions of SPHACELUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Gengrenous destruction of a part.
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In med., complete mortification, as distinguished from gangrene, the incomplete state.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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This word is used, by some, synonymously with gangrene; by others, with gangrene when it occu-pies the whole substance of a limb. Commonly, it means the disorganized portion, in cases of mortification, anthraconecro'sis, which must be thrown off, - or is, in other words, totally dead. The foul disorganized portion of an ulcer-called the slough- must be considered a kind of spha-celus. Sphacelus was formerly used to denote excessive pain; and for agitation from excessive pain, or violent emotion.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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