leucophlegmaticadj.
/ˌl(j)uːkəʊflɛɡˈmatɪk/ Affected with or characterized by leucophlegmacy.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > excessive fluid > dropsy
water-sickOE
dropicc1425
hydropic1483
hydropical?1550
oedematous1583
hydroptic1608
hydroptical1640
hydropsic1649
dropsic1651
leucophlegmatical1658
oedematic1666
leucophlegmatic1668
anasarcous1676
dropsical1678
oedematose1710
dropsied1793
plerocephalic1927
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vii. 110 Leuco~phlegmatick persons.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 363 Old Age..attended with a..leucophlegmatic Constitution.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 42 He told me..my case was dropsical; or, as he called it, leucophlegmatic.
1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 356 The vast expanse of his leuco~phlegmatic countenance.
1861 T. J. Graham Pract. Med. 185 A leucophlegmatic temperament.
Derivatives
ˌleucophlegˈmatical adj. = main sense
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > excessive fluid > dropsy
water-sickOE
dropicc1425
hydropic1483
hydropical?1550
oedematous1583
hydroptic1608
hydroptical1640
hydropsic1649
dropsic1651
leucophlegmatical1658
oedematic1666
leucophlegmatic1668
anasarcous1676
dropsical1678
oedematose1710
dropsied1793
plerocephalic1927
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 988 They hurt not dropsie persons, nor such as are leucophlegmatical.
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