vitiation

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While occupying a room, we are insensible of the 237 gradual vitiation of the air.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin

There was a vitiation of the atmosphere that was not helped by a strong bodily odor, a stout and sturdy smell that came near to sickening Mr. Thompson.

From Burned Bridges by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

They are usually accompanied with a well-developed fetus, so that the mole may be looked upon as a twin which has undergone arrest and vitiation of development.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

In Everope is seen the extremity to which the vitiation here mentioned by the great moralist may sometimes be carried.

From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

There is no pathological phenomena more freely attested than the sudden vitiation of the secretions by intense mental disturbances.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson