See Also: perthes disease(medicine)
Perthes disease(dictionary)
disease, legg-perthes(medicine)
Legg-Perthes disease(medicine)
Calve-Perthes disease(medicine)
Legg-Calve-Perthes disease(medicine)
disease, legg-calve-perthes(medicine)
Perthes, Georg(medicine)
Perthes' test(medicine)
Disease(health)

bedevil (iou) and Perthes disease (iou)


bedevil (iou)



bedevil verb trans. Infl. -ll-, *-l-. L16.
[from BE- 3, 4 + DEVIL noun.]
Possess (as) with a devil. Chiefly as bedevilled ppl adjective. L16.
Carlyle One age, he is hagridden, bewitched; the next, priestridden, befooled; in all ages, bedevilled.
Transform mischievously; corrupt, spoil. L17.
Disraeli So bedevil a bottle of Geisenheim..you wouldn't know it from the greenest Tokay.
Treat with diabolical violence or Abuse; drive frantic; plague, afflict. M18.
Byron My poor..Muse..they have..so be-deviled with their..ribaldry. S. Rushdie Confused thinking was to bedevil much of his career.
bedevilment noun E19.

Perthes disease (iou)



Perthes disease noun phr. Also Perthes' disease. E20.
[G. C. Perthes (1869-1927), German surgeon.]
Medicine. Degeneration of the head of the femur in children owing to an impaired blood supply, sometimes leading to necrosis and progressive deformity of the hip-joint.