phlegmasia alba dolensn.
/flɛɡˌmeɪsɪə(r) albə ˈdəʊl(ə)nz/, /flɛɡˌmeɪzɪə(r) albə ˈdəʊl(ə)nz/, /flɛɡˌmeɪʒə(r) albə ˈdəʊl(ə)nz/, U.S. /flɛɡˈˌmeɪziə ˌælbə ˈdoʊl(ə)nz/, /flɛɡˈˌmeɪʒ(i)ə ˌælbə ˈdoʊl(ə)nz/; see also phlegmasia n. Medicine.
Pain, swelling, and pallor of a limb caused by acute deep venous thrombosis; esp. that of a leg, most commonly seen in women after childbirth (also called milk leg, white leg).
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white leg1801
snow-shoe evil1809
sparganosis1822
milk leg1830
phlegmasia alba dolens1830
scissor leg1850
scelalgia1853
tennis-knee1901
intermittent claudication1909
knee1921
shin-cracker1928
shin-splint1930
panpygoptosis1938
shelter leg1940
phlegmasia cerulea dolens1950
1830 Lancet 13 Nov. 228/2 The phlegmasia alba dolens is in reality owing to phlebitis.
1837 Lancet 10 June 406/1 Inflammation of these organs [sc. the lymphatics] has been considered as the source of a number of diseases such as phthisis pulmonalis, elephantiasis, phlegmatia alba dolens, &c.
1872 J. R. Cormack tr. A. Trousseau Lect. Clin. Med. V. 281 Those of you who attend my clinical service must have remarked the frequency of occurrence of phlegmasia alba dolens.
1939 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 17 317 We are concerned here with the nonsuppurative postoperative or postparturient phlebitis, known under the various names of milk leg, phlegmasia alba dolens, or postphlebitic edema.
1965 Brit. Jrnl. Surg. 52 587/1 Haimovici..describes the progress of the condition from phlegmasia alba dolens (milk leg) through the blue phase of phlegmasia caerulea dolens to actual gangrene.
2004 Jrnl. Neurosurg. Anesthesiol. 16 171 (title) Management of phlegmasia alba dolens using hirudin in a neurosurgical patient with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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