(v. i.) To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
(v. i.) To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
(v. t.) To cause to explode.
(v. t.) To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
(v. i.) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
(v. i.) A fulminating powder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cerebral edema is a serious complication of the encephalopathy in fulminant hepatic failure.
(2) This paper details the first case report of a patient with fulminant, gangrenous, ischemic colitis caused by polyarteritis nodosa which was successfully treated surgically.
(3) Two cases have been examined in detail, one because of a fulminant shock after synthetic ACTH and the other because of very high antibody titres without clinical symptoms of ACTH allergy.
(4) Histopathology of the tissues infected by M. incognitus varied from no pathological changes to fulminant necrosis with or without an associated inflammatory reaction.
(5) This is the first case of a fulminant phase of mumps ventriculitis leading to aqueductal stenosis, which has been treated using a ventriculoscope for the first time.
(6) Hyperacute rejection is uncommon, although syndromes of fulminant graft failure due to immunological mechanisms have been described.
(7) Prolonged disturbance of consciousness associated with periodic EEG discharges developed in a 57-year-old male after fulminant hepatitis.
(8) A 23-year old female patient on a prolonged regimen of tuberculostatic chemotherapy finally developed fulminant hepatic failure shortly after addition of hormonal contraception.
(9) Such markers are prerequisites for therapeutic trials with potent drugs which are only justified for patients with fulminant hepatitis and patients with progression to chronicity.
(10) We conclude that liver transplantation can be applied successfully to the difficult clinical problem of fulminant and subacute hepatic failure.
(11) One case of fulminating disease showed a change to slow progression and survived a year longer than was otherwise expected.
(12) Splenectomy was performed on one twin at age seven years who survived a complicating pneumococcal septicaemia ten days after the procedure, but who succumbed to fulminating infection three years later.
(13) Symptoms continued to worsen, however, and the patient died of fulminant hepatic necrosis.
(14) The fulminant collection of pseudopolyps was palable in the epigastrium on physical exam and caused a partial obstruction to the retrograde flow of barium.
(15) Two of the patients (both teenagers) died of fulminant infection during the first 36 hours of therapy and one elderly woman developed aspiration pneumonia requiring penicillin therapy to be prolonged beyond four days.
(16) Sudden enhanced replication of a HBV mutant as a result of such therapy can be a cause of either very severe hepatitis or occasionally fulminant hepatitis.
(17) In addition to the classic signs of a fulminant ruptured ectopic pregnancy, a history of upper abdominal pain was the only distinguishing feature.
(18) These findings indicate that flumazenil may be valuable in treatment of acute HE occurring in fulminant hepatic failure or in decompensated cirrhosis.
(19) In the absence of definitive medical treatment for severe fulminant hepatic failure, liver transplantation may be appropriate in selected patients.
(20) The spectrum of disease patterns ranges from a benign form to a very fulminant and occasionally fatal one.
Inveigh
Definition:
(v. i.) To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is easy simply to inveigh against the situation, the way that both Russia and the west are more interested in asserting their own position (and virtue) than engaging with the other’s.
(2) Indeed, continually depicting Muslims as the supreme evil - even when compared to the west's worst monsters - is par for Harris' course, as when he inveighed : Unless liberals realize that there are tens of millions of people in the Muslim world who are far scarier than Dick Cheney, they will be unable to protect civilization from its genuine enemies."
(3) He caught sight of Marine Le Pen on a TV politics show in 2007, inveighing against the European Union in the pugnacious style she honed as a lawyer, warning the government to “stop taking the people for fools”.
(4) A Christian humanist with a healthy respect for Islam, he was a member of the academic elite; yet he inveighed against academic professionalism, venturing into territories well outside his area of speciality, insisting always that the true intellectual's role must be that of the amateur, because it is only the amateur who is moved neither by the rewards nor the requirements of a career, and who is therefore capable of a disinterested engagement with ideas and values.
(5) Erdogan inveighed against the international media, blaming the BBC and CNN for distorting the drama of the past three weeks in what he repeatedly alleged was an international plot to divide and diminish Turkey.
(6) A group of Democrats, flanked by family members of gun violence victims, were at times brought to tears during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday following the murder of 49 people in a gay club in Orlando over the weekend, as they inveighed against an epidemic that kills an average of 90 Americans each day and vowed to force Republicans on the record on the issue.
(7) When Jacqui Smith was home secretary, she was inveighing against irresponsible drink promotions such as "50p shots until midnight" and "all you can drink for a tenner" nights.
(8) With bogus indignation Cameron inveighed against the “merry-go-round” of tax credits – and indeed the state shouldn’t need to subsidise misery wages.
(9) She inveighs against the "gravediggers" of Brussels, whose austerity measures are held responsible for the scourge of mass unemployment and economic stagnation.
(10) However, several aspects of the data inveigh against the significance of the findings with regard to narcotic mechanisms.
(11) I inveighed against the callous manipulation of public attitudes against claimants by the popular press that has driven many people to turn a blind eye to the real agenda.
(12) From the chancellor who inveighed against Labour's culture of debt and the government that vowed to focus on rebalancing the economy, Help to Buy smacks either of hypocrisy or an admission of defeat.
(13) The author argues that Zoellner's case that these matters are experimental questions rested on arguments which Hermann von Helmholtz, inveighing against rationalist views of space and space perception, had recently published.
(14) In the thesis , called “The Republican Party’s Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of The Decade,” McDonnell argued that government must promote “the traditional two-parent, one-earner family.” The thesis inveighed against women in the workplace, grouped feminism with the “real enemies of the traditional family” and warned against “cohabitators, homosexuals, or fornicators.” It made McDonnell look, to some eyes, like a fundamentalist, out of step with centrist Virginia voters.
(15) Almost daily John Paul inveighed against the " culture of death " – abortion, contraception, homosexuality, divorce, sex before marriage, and the use of condoms even between partners with HIV.
(16) In his first visit outside Rome since becoming pope, Francis visited recently arrived migrants on the island of Lampedusa on Monday, lambasting the rich world for its lack of concern for their suffering and inveighing against a "globalisation of indifference".
(17) During the 80s his act turned steadily more political as he inveighed against the corruption that was steadily engulfing Italy under its then Socialist prime minister, Bettino Craxi.
(18) Dr Robin Russell-Jones Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire • Simon Jenkins is right to inveigh against the habit of politicians keeping the populace in a state of fear.