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| The state of being in juxtaposition or proximity (as in drawing together of cut edges of tissue in healing) |
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1 : concerned with the production of blood or of one or more of its constituents (hematogenous functions of the liver)
2 : taking place or spread by way of the blood (a hematogenous route of infection) (hematogenous tuberculosis) |
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| exuded matter; especially : the material composed of serum, fibrin, and white blood cells that escapes from blood vessels into a superficial lesion or area of inflammation |
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| Localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue. |
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| an abnormal passage that leads from an abscess or hollow organ or part to the body surface or from one hollow organ or part to another and that may be surgically created to permit passage of fluids or secretions |
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| a passage in a bone leading to a cavity containing a sequestrum |
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| a metabolic disease marked by a painful inflammation of the joints, deposits of urates in and around the joints, and usually an excessive amount of uric acid in the blood |
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| a formation of new bone about a sequestrum (as in osteomyelitis) |
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| a fragment of dead bone detached from adjoining sound bone |
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| an infectious usually painful inflammatory disease of bone that is often of bacterial origin and may result in death of bone tissue |
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| excessive development of an organ or part; specifically : increase in bulk (as by thickening of muscle fibers) without multiplication of parts |
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