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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



513 words match “FLAM”

PARAMETRITIS n.
Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the vicinity of the uterus.
PAROTITIS n.
Inflammation of the parotid glands. Epidemic, or Infectious, parotitis, mumps.
PERCUSS v.
rike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination. Flame percussed by air giveth a noise. Bacon.
PERICARDITUS n.
Inflammation of the pericardium. Dunglison.
PERICHONDRITIS n.
Inflammation of the perichondrium.
PERICYSTITIS n.
Inflammation of the tissues surrounding the bladder.
PERINEPHRITIS n.
Inflammation of the cellular tissue around the kidney. -- Per`i*ne*phrit"ic, a.
PERIOSTITIS n.
Inflammation of the periosteum.
PERIPROCTITIS n.
Inflammation of the tissues about the rectum.
PERITONITIS n.
Inflammation of the peritoneum.
PERITYPHLITIS n.
Inflammation of the connective tissue about the cæcum.
PETROLEUM n.
Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may…
PHARYNGITIS n.
Inflammation of the pharynx.
PHENICOPTER n.
A flamingo.
PHLEBITIS n.
Inflammation of a vein.
PHLEGMASIA n.
An inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of the internal organs. Phlegmasia dolens ( Etym: [NL.], milk leg.
PHLEGMON n.
Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.
PHLOGISTIC a.
Inflammatory; belonging to inflammations and fevers.
PHLOGISTON n.
The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element.
PHLOGOGENOUS a.
Causing inflammation.
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