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Volkmann's Canals(medicine)
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His, Wilhelm Jr(medicine)
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infectious (iou) and Volkmann, Alfred Wilhelm (medicine)


infectious (iou)



infectious adjective. M16.
[from INFECTION + -OUS. Cf. INFECTUOUS.]
Able to cause disease, unhealthy, infecting. M16.
infectious hepatitis, infectious mononucleosis, infectious parotitis, etc.
Of (a) disease: communicable; liable to be transmitted from one person to another by transfer of micro-organisms. Also, (of a person) infected, liable to infect others. M16.
Affected with disease. M16-E18.
Tending or liable to contaminate character, morals, etc. Now rare. M16.
Of an action, emotion, etc.: having the quality of spreading from one to another; easily communicable. E17.
E. Phillpotts Her volubility was infectious They talked one against the Other.
Law (now Hist.). Of contraband etc.: rendering the rest of a cargo or the ship liable to seizure. L19.
infectiously adverb E17.
infectiousness noun E17.

Volkmann, Alfred Wilhelm (medicine)


Volkmann, Alfred Wilhelm
<person> Was Professor of Physiology and Anatomy in Dorpat and later in Halle.

Volkmann's Canals - canals in bone carrying blood vessels from the periosteum.

Lived: 1800-1877. B. Leipzig, Jul 1st, 1800, d. Halle, Apr 21st, 1877.