Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a discharge of mucus; specifically, gonorrhea.
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- noun Excessive
blennorrhea , ormucous discharge , especially as seen ingonorrhea .
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Examples
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Boyer, in the tenth volume of his "Treatise on Surgical Affections," gives several examples of this affection not due to age: one case was a person, simultaneously attacked by an adynamic fever and a blennorrhagia, who suffered from gangrene of the penis; the local and constitutional disturbance was not high, however, and the patient escaped with the simple loss of the prepuce.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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After the recovery from the fever, the remaining portion of the gland and the mutilated parts of the cavernous body were amputated to remedy this condition; the patient subsequently admitted to have had a blennorrhagia at the time of his admission to the hospital.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Another case admitted to the Charité, aged thirty-six, was afflicted with a blennorrhagia, upon which an attack of low fever supervened.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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The resin from these species is frequently made into pills, and taken for colds by those residing in the country -- among whom also it is frequently employed with success in chronic blennorrhagia.
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By an extension to the mucous membrane of the urethra of the same condition of the inflammatory process, we have blennorrhagia; blennorrhagia is liable to be followed by inguinal swellings or tenderness, orchitis, stricture, and prostatic disease; the formation of preputial calculus, from retention of the urine in the prepuce; and cancer is apt to be the end of any of these conditions. "[
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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