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Definition of fulminant in English: fulminantadjective ˈfʊlmɪnəntˈfʌlmɪnəntˈfʊlmənənt Medicine (of a disease or symptom) severe and sudden in onset. 〔医〕(疾病,症状)暴发性的 Example sentencesExamples - I have a patient who had major abdominal surgery a few years ago for a fulminant illness.
- Whereas meningococcemia was formerly associated with pyogenic meningitis, the disease is now so fulminant that meningitis does not have time to become established.
- Clinical presentations of antibiotic associated diarrhoea range from mild diarrhoea to fulminant pseudomembranous colitis.
- Emphysematous Pyelonephritis is a fulminant infection of the renal parenchyma and perirenal tissues with gas formation in the non functioning kidney.
- Renal involvement frequently results in fulminant hypertension, renal failure, and death.
- In others, inhalation can lead to an acute fulminant pneumonia resulting in the ARDS or can be a chronic pneumonia.
- However, HEV infection often leads to fulminant hepatitis especially among pregnant women.
- The clinical presentation ranges from no symptoms to fulminant pseudomembranous colitis.
- Rarely, fulminant ischaemic colitis occurs with gangrene or perforation and needs urgent surgical exploration.
- A fulminant pneumonitis with septicemia that is known as ‘cepacia syndrome’ is the most serious outcome of cepacia infection, although a variable clinical course in those infected with this organism has been noted.
- We are presenting a case of severe ARDS due to a fulminant coccidioidomycosis infection that responded to a short course of systemic steroids in addition to the standard antifungal treatment.
- Cowling takes issue with our advice that healthcare workers who are exposed to airway secretions from patients with fulminant meningococcal disease should be offered chemoprophylaxis.
- Compared with patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, HSC transplant recipients generally display a more fulminant onset and course.
- Of these, 250 are hospitalized as a result of acute complications, and approximately 100 die from cirrhosis, liver cancer, or fulminant hepatitis.
- Case reports establish beyond doubt that HHV - 6 can trigger fulminant demyelinating disease and encephalitis in MS patients.
- Between 0.3 and 1.8 percent of people who contract HAV develop fulminant hepatitis, a severe form of hepatitis with rapid liver cell death and liver failure.
- The range of clinical presentation can vary from asymptomatic to fulminant disease.
- Guillain-Barre syndrome related to CMV has been documented, as have the much less frequent complications of encephalitis, myocarditis, or fulminant hepatitis.
- Shigellosis may occur as a selflimiting illness with watery diarrhoea but often episodes of acute fulminant bloody dysentery lead to high case fatality rates among children.
- Three of the 12 patients studied had acute HCV infections, three had fulminant hepatitis (a rare but serious form of acute disease), and six had chronic hepatitis.
OriginEarly 17th century: from French, or from Latin fulminant- 'striking with lightning', from the verb fulminare (see fulminate). Definition of fulminant in US English: fulminantadjectiveˈfo͝olmənəntˈfʊlmənənt Medicine (of a disease or symptom) severe and sudden in onset. 〔医〕(疾病,症状)暴发性的 Example sentencesExamples - Renal involvement frequently results in fulminant hypertension, renal failure, and death.
- Whereas meningococcemia was formerly associated with pyogenic meningitis, the disease is now so fulminant that meningitis does not have time to become established.
- Case reports establish beyond doubt that HHV - 6 can trigger fulminant demyelinating disease and encephalitis in MS patients.
- However, HEV infection often leads to fulminant hepatitis especially among pregnant women.
- We are presenting a case of severe ARDS due to a fulminant coccidioidomycosis infection that responded to a short course of systemic steroids in addition to the standard antifungal treatment.
- Three of the 12 patients studied had acute HCV infections, three had fulminant hepatitis (a rare but serious form of acute disease), and six had chronic hepatitis.
- Cowling takes issue with our advice that healthcare workers who are exposed to airway secretions from patients with fulminant meningococcal disease should be offered chemoprophylaxis.
- A fulminant pneumonitis with septicemia that is known as ‘cepacia syndrome’ is the most serious outcome of cepacia infection, although a variable clinical course in those infected with this organism has been noted.
- I have a patient who had major abdominal surgery a few years ago for a fulminant illness.
- In others, inhalation can lead to an acute fulminant pneumonia resulting in the ARDS or can be a chronic pneumonia.
- The range of clinical presentation can vary from asymptomatic to fulminant disease.
- Emphysematous Pyelonephritis is a fulminant infection of the renal parenchyma and perirenal tissues with gas formation in the non functioning kidney.
- Between 0.3 and 1.8 percent of people who contract HAV develop fulminant hepatitis, a severe form of hepatitis with rapid liver cell death and liver failure.
- Of these, 250 are hospitalized as a result of acute complications, and approximately 100 die from cirrhosis, liver cancer, or fulminant hepatitis.
- Compared with patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, HSC transplant recipients generally display a more fulminant onset and course.
- Clinical presentations of antibiotic associated diarrhoea range from mild diarrhoea to fulminant pseudomembranous colitis.
- Rarely, fulminant ischaemic colitis occurs with gangrene or perforation and needs urgent surgical exploration.
- Guillain-Barre syndrome related to CMV has been documented, as have the much less frequent complications of encephalitis, myocarditis, or fulminant hepatitis.
- The clinical presentation ranges from no symptoms to fulminant pseudomembranous colitis.
- Shigellosis may occur as a selflimiting illness with watery diarrhoea but often episodes of acute fulminant bloody dysentery lead to high case fatality rates among children.
OriginEarly 17th century: from French, or from Latin fulminant- ‘striking with lightning’, from the verb fulminare (see fulminate). |