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Definitions of fulminant in various dictionaries:
adj - sudden and severe
Exploding or detonating.
Occurring suddenly, rapidly, and with great severity or intensity.
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(of a disease or symptom) severe and sudden in onset. |
sudden and severe |
Exploding or detonating. |
Pathology Occurring suddenly, rapidly, and with great severity or intensity. |
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Fulminant () is a descriptor for any event or process that occurs suddenly and escalates quickly, and is intense and severe to the point of lethality, i.e., it has an explosive character. The word comes from Latin fulminre, to strike with lightning. Its most frequent uses are those in the field of medicine, and there are several diseases described by this adjective:* Fulminant liver failure * Fulminant colitis * Fulminant pre-eclampsia * Fulminant meningitis * Fulminant hepatic venous thrombosis (Budd-Chiari syndrome) * Fulminant jejunoileitisSome viral hemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola, Lassa fever, and Lábrea fever, may kill in as little as two to five days. Diseases that cause rapidly developing lung edema, such as some kinds of pneumonia, may kill in a few hours. It was said of the "black death" (pneumonic bubonic plague) that some of its victims would die in a matter of hours after the initial symptoms appeared. Other pathologic conditions that may be fulminating in character are acute resp |