Meanings
- obsoleteuncountablemedicineImpregnation with salts of lime.
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But the case reported clearly proves that chronic interstitial nephritis must be taken in certain cases as a co-phenomenon of a general arterial disease; and in this case the considerable atheromatous changes, and the cretifaction in the large vessels, and the occurrence of endarteritis obliterans without cretifaction in the small vessels of the whole body, are especially noteworthy.
1885, The Practitioner, volume 34, page 55
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