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Definition of Algidity
1. Noun. Prostration characterized by cold and clammy skin and low blood pressure.
Definition of Algidity
1. n. Chilliness; coldness
Definition of Algidity
1. Noun. (medicine) The state of being algid. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Algidity
1. coldness [n -TIES] - See also: coldness
Medical Definition of Algidity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Algidity
Literary usage of Algidity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"Internal algidity.—Discrepancy that may exist between the temperature of external
and ... so that central algidity—for so we call this condition— generally ..."
2. Clinical Lectures on the Diseases of Old Age by Jean Martin Charcot, Alfred Lebbeus Loomis (1881)
"Central algidity—The Disagreement that may Exist Between the External and the
Deep Parts—Lowering of the Central Temperature in Chronic Diseases— Cancer, ..."
3. Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature by Edward Séguin (1876)
"In the first case it was frigeration, in the second algidity. (See W. Squire,
Infantile Tempera- tore in Health and Disease, and our Chapter IV., ..."
4. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1900)
"algidity ami cyanosis appear rather rarely. To febrile attacks presenting such
... The algidity and the other symptoms may last several hours, rarely more. ..."
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