(v. t.) To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.
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.
Vehemence
Definition:
(n.) The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.
(n.) Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions.
Example Sentences:
(1) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
(2) With all the vehemence I could muster, I took a spoonful of the spinach and threw it at the ceiling.
(3) On the way back he looks out over the fields and says with sudden vehemence: "Deer: I hate them.
(4) The vehemence of Conservative divisions over same-sex marriage were exposed when one Tory MP said it would undermine "normal marriage", another questioned whether polygamy would be legalised next, and a third claimed that European judges will soon force the Church of England to allow same-sex marriages against its will.
(5) It surpassed its rivals in the vehemence and cogency of its opposition to the Iraq invasion.
(6) For the average climate science denier in the street (and there are a lot of them on some streets), there is often little correlation between the vehemence of their denials and the so-called "facts" at their disposal.
(7) To the south are Shia militias who have responded with vehemence and are transforming the frontlines into a sectarian showdown that pays no heed to the state.
(8) The taxpayer hasn't lost anything, the business minister insists with some vehemence.
(9) And, though it was perhaps unsurprising that Cameron should be unenthusiastic about Juncker’s candidacy, the vehemence of his opposition was extraordinary.
(10) Indeed, there seems to be some sort of inverse correlation between the ignorance of the speaker and the vehemence with which they hold their opinion.
(11) The vehemence of his attack will antagonise the pensions industry, already angry at Miliband's promise to clamp down on City predators.
(12) Militant communists, capable of mobilising thousands on to the streets, and unions representing civil servants, the mainstay of the Greek workforce, have already announced strikes for later this week, attacking the prospect of yet more austerity with extreme vitriol and vehemence.
(13) In fact, each of these operators has an eccentric take on the standards supplied by his forebears – in Poussin's case, the transparent pictorial window of Renaissance art, in Twombly's the in-your-face vehemence of the Abstract Expressionists .
(14) What distinguished Rivers' work was the vehemence (and the delight) she brought to the task, the quality of the jokes (she was, above all, a great gag woman) – and of course the fact that the last laugh was always on her.
(15) So it is with vehemence rather than violence that they dismiss the Falklands' first referendum on sovereignty, due to start on Sunday, which is expected to reinforce at the ballot box what was determined by guns and tanks in 1982: UK rule over the south Atlantic islands and the sea lanes around them.
(16) Yet, at the same time, they resist with great vehemence change in the way they do their business.
(17) Although sports fans may be a little surprised by the vehemence of Morrissey's reaction, an event that combined corporate sponsorship from McDonald's with the near-constant presence of the royal family was unlikely to win his favour.
(18) When she announced her candidacy she criticised the “financial industry” and “multinational corporations” that have “created huge wealth for a few by focusing too much on short-term profit and too little on long-term value, too much on complex trading schemes and stock buy-backs, too little on investments in new businesses, jobs and fair compensation.” She may not share Sanders’s vehemence on the issue.
(19) The rising number of interests in the war and the vehemence of the protagonists is, however, making attempts to control Lebanon evermore difficult.
(20) Mediated by cognitive variables persons with emphatic perception may develop an association between anxiety and allergic processes with high probability, the reciprocal influence of which can increase with vehemence.