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‖ sequela|sɪˈkwiːlə|
Pl. sequelæ |sɪˈkwiːliː|.
[L. sequēla: see sequel n.]
1. Path. A morbid affection occurring as the result of a previous disease. Chiefly pl.
c1793Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XI. 299/2 But..these sequelæ of this disease are perhaps more readily overcome by country air. 1816A. C. Hutchison Pract. Obs. Surg. (1826) 115, I had, recently, a case of the sequelæ of this malady. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 529 The change..is sometimes a sequela of myocarditis.
b. transf. A consequence.
1883Spectator 28 Apr. (Stanf.), Those terrible sequelæ which interfere so deeply with human happiness. 1910Q. Rev. Apr. 429 Ostentation and oppression on the part of the rich with the sequelæ of vice, crime and demoralisation.
2. A person's followers (cf. sequel n. 1). rare.
1858–9Marsh Eng. Lang. xxx. (1860) 673 The long e in there, which Walker and his sequela make identical with a in fate. |