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单词 pseudodiphtheritic
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pseudodiphtheriticadj.

Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊdɪfθəˈrɪtɪk/, /ˌs(j)uːdəʊdɪpθəˈrɪtɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌsudoʊˌdɪpθəˈrɪdɪk/, /ˈˌsudoʊˌdɪfθəˈrɪdɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: pseudo- comb. form, diphtheritic adj.
Etymology: < pseudo- comb. form + diphtheritic adj., after German pseudo-diphtheritisch (F. A. J. Loeffler 1887, in Centralbl. f. Bakteriol. 2 106, the source reviewed in the passage cited in quot. 1889 at sense 1). Compare scientific Latin pseudodiphtheriticus, specific epithet (1896 or earlier).
Medicine.
1. Designating the pseudodiphtheria bacillus, Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum (see pseudodiphtheria n. 1). Now rare.
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1889 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 97 336 This he [sc. Loeffler] calls the ‘pseudo-diphtheritic bacillus’.
1934 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 23 576/2 The most common diphtheroid bacillus is the B. hoffmanni which is also known as the pseudo-diphtheritic bacillus.
2. Resembling diphtheria or its manifestations; pseudomembranous. Cf. pseudodiphtheria n. 2.
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1895 S. T. Armstrong in Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 515 The difficulty of distinguishing..the diphtheritic from the pseudo-diphtheritic inflammation.
1954 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 88 523/2 Penner and Bernstein..found forty cases in which necropsy showed pseudodiphtheritic ulceronecrotic enteritis, colitis or enterocolitis.
1995 Jrnl. Compar. Pathol. 112 273 At necropsy, yellowish white nodules often accompanied by a pseudodiphtheritic membrane were found in the oral, pharyngeal, tracheal and air sac mucosae.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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