| fulminant | Occurring suddenly, with lightning-like rapidity, and with great intensity or severity; applied to certain pains, e.g., those of tabes dorsalis. Compare: fulgurant. Origin: L. Fulmino, pp. -atus, to hurl lightning, fr. Fulmen, lightning (05 Mar 2000) |
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| fulminant hepatitis | <gastroenterology, pathology> A severe and rapidly progressive form of hepatitis accompanied by hepatocellular death and the signs and symptoms of hepatic failure. May be a complication of hepatitis B, hepatitis C or hepatitis D. (05 Jan 1998) |
| fulminant hyperpyrexia | A severe form of fever that occurs as a reaction to certain anaesthetic agents and muscle relaxants. Malignant hyperthermia is an inherited autosomal dominant condition. Inheritance: autosomal dominant. (27 Sep 1997) |
| amoebic dysentery | <gastroenterology> Diarrhoea which results for ulcerative inflammation of the colon. This condition is caused by infection with Entamoeba histolytica, a similar appearance grossly to that of ulcerative colitis. See: amoebiasis. (05 Feb 1998) |
| bacillary dysentery | Infection with Shigella dysenteriae, S. Flexneri, or other organisms. Synonym: Japanese dysentery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balantidial dysentery | A type of colitis resembling in many respects amoebic dysentery; caused by the parasitic ciliate, Balantidium coli. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bilharzial dysentery | Dysentery due to infection with Schistosoma mansoni, S. Haematobium, or S. Japonicum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| malignant dysentery | Dysentery in which the symptoms are intensely acute, leading to prostration, collapse, and often death. Synonym: fulminating dysentery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| viral dysentery | Profuse watery diarrhoea due to, or thought to be due to, infection by a virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chronic dysentery of cattle | A disease occurring in cattle and sheep, usually manifested by thickening of the wall of the intestine, particularly of the ileum; caused by infection with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. Synonym: chronic dysentery of cattle, paratuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| winter dysentery of cattle | A specific, highly contagious and severe disease of unknown origin; the disease is seen in the cold months of the year, outbreaks generally abate after a few days; the death rate is low, but the loss in flesh and milk is often high. (05 Mar 2000) |
| helminthic dysentery | Dysentery caused by infection with parasitic worms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sonne dysentery | Dysentery due to infection by Shigella sonnei; sometimes milder than other types of bacterial dysentery caused by Shigella. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spirillar dysentery | A form of dysentery or diarrhoea, described as occurring in the south of France, believed to be caused by a spirillum present in great numbers in the intestinal epithelia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| swine dysentery | An acute haemorrhagic colitis of swine, often accompanied by gastritis; the small intestines usually are not involved; its primary cause is Treponema hyodysenteriae, and it has a high mortality rate, especially among feeder pigs. (05 Mar 2000) |