Diphtheria
[dɪf'θɪərɪə;dɪp-] or [dɪp'θɪərɪr]
Definition
(noun.) acute contagious infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae; marked by the formation of a false membrane in the throat and other air passages causing difficulty in breathing.
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Definition
(n.) A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.
Typist: Rosa
Definition
n. a throat disease in which the air-passages become covered and impeded with a leathery membrane and a dangerous fever is present.—adj. Diphtherit′ic.
Typed by Hester
Examples
- Bacillus of Cholera identified by Koch, Bacillus of Diphtheria by Loeffler, and Bacillus of Lockjaw by Nicolaier. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- BACILLUS OF TUBERCULOSIS IN SPUTUM. BACILLUS OF DIPHTHERIA (KLEBS-LOEFFLER). Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I had two Germans who were testing there, and both of them died of diphtheria, caught in the cellar, which was cold and damp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There had been a daughter, I heard, but she had died of diphtheria while on a visit to Birmingham. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- According to the practice in modern municipal health regulations, the test as to when a child recovering from diphtheria is incapable of disseminating the disease is by test culture. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But he died prematurely of diphtheria, and Rosamond afterwards married an elderly and wealthy physician, who took kindly to her four children. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The bedding and clothing of persons suffering with diphtheria, tuberculosis, and other germ diseases should always be boiled and hung to dry in the bright sunlight. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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