fulminant

Example Sentences

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Koo died 6 days later of fulminant hepatic failure.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 29, 2018

The all-nighter had tipped him into a burst of fulminant mania.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2016

That showed the death rate for patients with a type of infection called fulminant C.difficile colitis was 75 percent.

From Reuters • Jan. 19, 2011

On Friday, a biopsy revealed that Todd was deteriorating fast, headed toward "fulminant hepatic failure."

From Time Magazine Archive

Every acute disease is fulminant, even indigestion is fulminant, but the force of the warring elements is soon expended and unless reinforced by fresh elements the fulmination must end.

From Appendicitis by Tilden, John Henry