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10 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)
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plethoric
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synonyms: turgid, Cushingʼs syndrome, Polycythemia vera ???
tags: [pathosis]
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Definition:Having a full habit of body; characterized by plethora or excess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution;Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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He was red-faced, burly and plethoric, with a pair of very small twinkling eyes which looked keenly out from between swollen and puffy pouches.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four
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The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to the service and patriotically Russian.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
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Those persons, on the contrary, who are energetic and incisive, the plethoric, red-blooded, strong males who fling themselves unthinkingly into the affair of the moment, generally delight in the bold gleams of yellows and reds, the clashing cymbals of vermilions and chromes that blind and intoxicate them.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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"Can you lend me a thousand?" he asked, almost in a whisper.
"Sure," answered O'Brien, thumping down a plethoric sack by the side of Matthewson's.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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