Usually means: Rapidly spreading, destructive skin ulceration.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. phagedena: Collins English Dictionary
  2. phagedena: Wordnik
  3. phagedena: Wiktionary
  4. phagedena: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. phagedena: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. phagedena: Dictionary.com
  7. Phagedena: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. phagedena: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Phagedena: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. phagedena: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Phagedena: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. phagedena: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. phagedena: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (medicine) Spreading, obstinate ulceration.

Similar:
phagedaena, phagedenic gingivitis, pachydermy, pachydermia, phlyctidium, pachyderma, phlogosis, ulcer, pediculation, empyesis, more...

Opposite:
healing, recovery, repair, regeneration

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Similar:
phagedaena, phagedenic gingivitis, pachydermy, pachydermia, phlyctidium, pachyderma, phlogosis, ulcer, pediculation, empyesis, more...

Opposite:
healing, recovery, repair, regeneration



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