hyperæmia

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See also: hyperemia, and hyperaemia

English

Noun

hyperæmia (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of hyperemia
    • 1854, Carl von Rokitansky et al., A manual of pathological anatomy, page 107:
      "It is to be understood that we have to deal only with local hyperæmia–congestion, so called."
    • 1861, Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni, Augustus Kinsley Gardner, A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Sexual Organs of Women, page 232:
      "When the hyperæmia of the genital parts is well marked, one or two local bleedings hasten the cure."
    • 1878, William Alexander Hammond, Cerebral hyperæmia: the result of mental strain or emotional disturbance: