A popular name for the remitting fever occasioned by marsh miasmata, in the Netherlands, and which proved so fatal to thousands of the English soldiers after the capture of Walcheren in the year 1809
A concretion formed in the gallbladder or bile duct; the usual composition is cholesterol, a blood pigment liberated by hemolysis, or a calcium salt Called also biliary calculus and cholelith
A fluid-filled cyst attached to a tendon sheath or joint Gangrene death of a tissue because of a lack of blood supply Gastrectomy surgical removal of all or part of the stomach Gastric acid the digest...
Gangrene of the cheek and gums, affecting delicate and sickly children, rarely the adult, and characterized by a rapid destruction of tissue The disease is generally fatal Noma Cancer aquaticus
Gangrene occurring in a wound infected with bacteria of the genus Clostridium, especially C perfringens, and characterized by the presence of gas in the affected tissue
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