fulminant en · ADJ
Etymology
Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”). By surface analysis, fulmin(ate) + -ant or fulmine + -ant.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) That fulminates.
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(especially, not-comparable) Appearing quickly and with destructive effects.
When his liver function was measured, an acute, fulminant hepatitis was discovered.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 280:Fulminant hepatitis seems to be more common in females than in males (11).[…]In contrast to common belief, Chalmers (17) has shown that physical exercise during infectious hepatitis does not increase the risk of a fulminant course of disease.
1983, Friedrich Deinhardt, Jean Deinhardt, editors, Viral Hepatitis: Laboratory and Clinical Science, Marcel Dekker, page 296:
Deriveds
nonfulminant · subfulminant · fulminantly
Translations (8)
cs geniální (coming on quickly and destructively) · pl piorunujący (coming on quickly and destructively) · es fulminante (coming on quickly and destructively) · cs skvělý (coming on quickly and destructively) · bg скоротечен (coming on quickly and destructively) · cs brilantní (coming on quickly and destructively) · de fulminant (coming on quickly and destructively) · fr foudroyant (coming on quickly and destructively)