algid
Example Sentences
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Equally ineffectual are other means used for communicating heat to the algid body and thereby reviving its functions.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The skin is perceptibly cold in the algid stage of cholera.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
As Wunderlich has pointed out, during the algid stage temperatures taken in the mouth do not give an accurate idea of the general temperature; the rectal and vaginal temperatures are more nearly correct.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In the comatose form the surface is preternaturally warm, of a muddy, semi-jaundiced hue, and the pulse and temperature both indicate the feverish rather than the algid state.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
For, of all the miracles!—I could not doubt—an actual aroma like peach-blossom was in the algid air about me!
From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
