Meanings
- uncountablemedicineA condition in which the skin thickens and becomes hardened or verrucous.
Here in Edinburgh, whether on account of the pachydermy of its people or because the secretion is less virulent than it is elsewhere, cases of dermatitis caused by the plant are few.
1917, Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Transactions - Botanical Society of Edinburgh - Volume 26, page 3022 more examples
If, as the inflammation recurs, the pachydermy spread beyond the point originally attacked, all the different grades of the disease are often exhibited simultaneously in the same extremity.
1883, Felix von Niemeyer, A Text-book of Practical MedicineFrom the clinical point of view, there was striking, symmetrically expressed pachydermy of extremities, forehead, crown of the head and sometimes even the face with the symptom of cutis certicis gyrata.
1976, Excerpta medica. Section 31: Arthritis and rheumatism - uncountableInsensitivity.
Now, may we hope a shift of paradigm and a shake-up of operational pachydermy will take place ?
1994, Civil & Military Law Journal - Volume 29, page 242 more examples
The haughty foreign secretary, to whom for the next fifty years all stories of aristocratic pachydermy were attached, was still to come.
1972, Wayland Kennet, Preservation, page 35Their blood, sweat, toil and tears go unheeded, their personhood neglected, and their developmental contribution atrophied, in the ballyhoo of politics and the pachydermy of the bureaucracy.
1982, V. R. Krishna Iyer, Law, Justice, and the Disabled, page 10
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