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单词 phlegmasia
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phlegmasian.

Brit. /flɛɡˈmeɪsɪə/, /flɛɡˈmeɪzɪə/, /flɛɡˈmeɪʒə/, U.S. /flɛɡˈmeɪziə/, /flɛɡˈmeɪʒ(i)ə/
Inflections: Plural phlegmasiae, phlegmasias.
Forms: 1700s–1800s phlegmatia (in sense 2), 1700s– phlegmasia.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin phlegmasia.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin phlegmasia (1679 or earlier) < ancient Greek ϕλεγμασία inflammation, swelling (Hippocrates) < ϕλέγμα phlegm n. + -σία (see -sy suffix1). Compare French phlegmasie (1765; earlier in Middle French as fleumasie, flegmasie (a1365)).With the form phlegmatia compare post-classical Latin phlegmatia (1768 or earlier), and leucophlegmatia (see leucophlegmacy n.). With phlegmasia alba and phlegmasia dolens (see sense 2) compare phlegmasia alba dolens n.
Medicine.
1. Inflammation; an instance of this. Now rare or disused.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > inflammation > [noun]
heatc1000
fireOE
burning1382
phlegmona1398
disdainc1400
angerc1440
scaldingc1450
brounes1528
inflaming1530
combustion?1541
inflammation1541
incension1598
fieriness1600
angriness1612
exustion1657
phlogosis1666
phlegmasia1706
scald1882
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Phlegmasia, an Inflammation.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Phlegmasia, a word used by some of the medical writers for an inflammation.
1788 W. Cullen First Lines Physic (new ed.) I. ii. vi. §1 (heading) Of inflammations, or phlegmasiæ.
1800 J. Hull Ess. Phlegmatia Dolens ii. 210 And, not to mention other cases of internal Phlegmasiæ, no external inflammation is perceptible either in Peritonitis puerperalis, or in musculosa of Frank.
1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II When any part of the surface of the body is affected with unusual redness, heat, pain, and tumor, we name the disease an inflammation or phlegmasia.
1859 R. H. Semple tr. P. Bretonneau et al. Mem. Diphtheria 1 The mucous tissue..is also the seat of very different kinds of phlegmasia.
1878 Johnson's New Universal Cycl. (new ed.) III. 1225/2 The symptoms of phlegmasia are those of ordinary inflammation somewhat aggravated.
1890 Lancet 15 Feb. 347/2 Acute post-partum, peri-uterine, and pelvic inflammations seem more commonly accompanied by mania than is septicæmia without local phlegmasias.
2. Swelling of a limb; esp. (more fully †phlegmasia alba, phlegmasia dolens) phlegmasia alba dolens; an instance of this. Later also: phlegmasia cerulea dolens.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > white leg
phlegmasia dolens1800
white leg1801
milk leg1830
1756 D. Monro Ess. Dropsy (ed. 2) 83 (note) He [sc. Aretæus] says, that when the body is swelled with a thick white pituit, the disease ought to be named phlegmatia.]
1800 J. Hull (title) An Essay on Phlegmatia Dolens.
1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 6 The local characteristics of phlegmasia alba, or white inflammation, agree in many respects with those of phlegmon and erysipelas.
1822 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 12 451 The proximate cause of phlegmasia dolens having been proved to consist in a violent and destructive inflammation of the iliac veins and their contributory branches.
1872 J. R. Cormack tr. A. Trousseau Lect. Clin. Med. V. 285 During life, there was a partial phlegmasia of the superior extremities.
1928 C. S. Whitehead & C. A. Hoff Ethical Sex Relations (new ed.) i. v. 209 It is technically called phlegmasia dolens, but..as it was formerly thought that the milk from the breasts in some way managed to get there, it has been called ‘milk leg’.
1948 Population Stud. 1 416 Haemorrhage, other accidents of delivery, eclampsia, phlegmasia, etc. took a death toll.
2000 Techniques in Vascular & Interventional Radiol. 3 9/1 Phlegmasia is a rare but potentially limb-threatening vascular emergency caused by thrombosis of the deep and superficial veins of the leg.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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