Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obstinate spreading ulcer; an ulcer which eats and corrodes the neighboring parts
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A canine appetite; bulimia.
- noun Spreading, obstinate ulceration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine, obsolete Spreading, obstinate
ulceration .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sloughing phagedena rapidly ensued, but under medical treatment he eventually recovered.
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Sloughing phagedena rapidly ensued, but under medical treatment he eventually recovered.
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In the twelfth volume of the "Transactions" of the same society he finds the record of the case of a soldier who lost his penis through gangrene induced by syphilitic phagedena.
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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In the first volume of the _Journal of Venereal and Cutaneous Diseases_ the writer reported a case of the complete loss of penis in a young man as a result of phagedena due to syphilis.
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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