Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of the umbilical vein.
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Examples
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_Metastatic arthritis_ is seen more frequently in colts or young animals than in mature horses and we here take the liberty of classifying with the arthritis of omphalophlebitis and strangles the so-called rheumatic variety.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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This affection is grave; its course is comparatively brief; the prognosis is usually unfavorable; and omphalophlebitis occasions a form of lameness which at once impresses the practitioner that serious constitutional disturbance exists.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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This condition is well defined by Bollinger as quoted by Hoare, [1] when he calls it a purulent omphalophlebitis due to local infection of the umbilicus and umbilical vessels, by pyogenic organisms, causing a metastatic pyemia.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Navel ill of colts is also known as joint ill, omphalophlebitis, septic arthritis of sucklings, and pyosepticemia of the newly born.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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