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Putrescence   Listen
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Putrescence  n.  The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.





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... moist matter confined in the body and turbid, like turbid blood. Hence the disease occurs most commonly in boys and in those who are careless about cleanliness and neglect venesection. It is the result of a disposition of the blood resembling putrescence, in which there occurs an external ebullition in the efforts of nature to purify the interior of the body and to expel to the surface the virulent material within. Accordingly the common people declare that persons who have suffered from variolae et morbilli never acquire leprosy. Occasionally, ...
— Gilbertus Anglicus - Medicine of the Thirteenth Century • Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Words linked to "Putrescence" :   morbidity, rottenness, putrescent, putridness, morbidness, rot, putrefaction


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