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adjective
Miliary  adj.  
1.
Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.
2.
(Med.) Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever.
3.
(Zool.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini.





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"Miliary" Quotes from Famous Books



... tuberculous material follow the course of the milk ducts. The mucous membrane of the milk cistern (a) is ulcerated and covered with yellowish cheesy particles. The supramammary lymphatic gland (b) is greatly enlarged and contains many miliary ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture
... marbled, or variegated as in the Measles, but of a Colour more dull and lured. As they began to disappear, they inclined to a dun or brown Colour, and looked like so many dirty Spots. I never saw them rise above the Skin; nor did I once see any miliary Eruptions in this Fever; which agreed exactly with what Dr. Pringle had observed in the former War, and in the Beginning of this; however, we ought not to conclude from thence that miliary Eruptions ...
— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro
... of suppression in the case of this Greek patient, the pneumonia had been changed from the acute to the subacute and chronic stages and the doctors in charge had told his friends that he was now suffering from miliary tuberculosis, and would probably die within a ...
— Nature Cure • Henry Lindlahr


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