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
We also have the sadly familiar type described as the fulminant or, literally, "lightning-stroke" variety.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
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