diphtheriticadj.

1826 Medico-chirurg. Rev. 5 427 Dr. Bretonneau traces descriptions of the croupal or diphtheritic inflammation from the time of Hippocrates downwards.

1850 Dublin Med. Press Aug. 137 (title) Diphtheritic inflammation of the pharynx and tonsils.

1858 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 July 629/1 In the short space of sixteen days, not fewer than three hundred diphtheritic patients were under my care.

1884 R. Marryat in 19th Cent. May 845 A woman..suffering from a diphtheritic sore-throat.

1942 Lancet 7 Mar. 301/2 Infected dust was a major problem in wards housing streptococcal and diphtheritic patients..until its dissemination was prevented.

1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) xiv. 280/2 Diphtheritic inflammation occurs when the superficial layers of a mucous membrane become necrotic and, together with a fibrinous exudate, form an adherent membrane.

2000 Saga Mag. Feb. 104/1 Immunisation (against diphtheria) was well under way at the time and diphtheritic paralysis soon became rare.

1868 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 42 280 The highest of all the epithelium was much flattened when it was as usual present, not diphtheritically degenerate.

1900 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 6 Jan. 34/1 Cloths diphtheritically infected, placed between mattresses, gave profuse and positive growths, while those wrapped in linen remained sterile.

1949 Stain Technol. 24 165 The writer..had but superficial experience with the diphtheria organism, and so was definitely a member of this ‘diphtheritically lost generation’.

2000 Jrnl. Wildlife Dis. 36 225/1 Pox virus infection is generally manifested either cutaneously or diphtheritically, although both forms of the disease may occur in the same bird.