Word Meanings - PHLEGMON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.
Related words: (words related to PHLEGMON)
- AREOLAR
Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. reolar tissue , a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them. - TISSUED
Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton. - PURULENT
Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation. - PURULENTLY
In a purulent manner. - TISSUE
One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. Note: The term tissue is also often applied - INFLAMMATION
A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain. - CELLULAR
Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams , those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ. -- Cellular theory, or - INTERCELLULAR
Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels. - UNICELLULAR
Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism. - INTERTISSUED
Interwoven. Shak. - PERICELLULAR
Surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells. - INTRACELLULAR
Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells. - MULTICELLULAR
Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell. - ENTERTISSUED
See INTERTISSUED - MUCOPURULENT
Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus. Dunglison.