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VIBEX

\vˈa͡ɪbɛks], \vˈa‍ɪbɛks], \v_ˈaɪ_b_ɛ_k_s]\

Definitions of VIBEX

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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Purple streaks on skin.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

v[=i]'beks, n. a purple spot under the skin in certain fevers:--pl. VIB[=I]'CES. [L.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

[Latin] a long, reddish streak formed by the effusion of blood into the skin.

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
By Alexander Duane

A linear ecchymosis or streak of effused blood.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

PL, vibices. Obs A mark produced or appearing as if produced by the stroke of a whip.
A linear ecchymosis. [Lat.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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