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crust(2) (iou) and Acute appendicitis (medicine)


crust(2) (iou)



crust verb. LME.
[from the noun.]
verb intrans. Form or become covered with a crust. LME.
T. Pynchon Blood darkened and crusting at the lesion in his neck.
verb trans. Cover (as) with a crust; form into a crust. M16.
Wilkie Collins The dirt of half a century, crusted on the glass. J. A. Froude The truth had been crusted over with fictions. C. McCullers A thin coat of ice crusted the puddles.
verb trans. Hunt (deer etc.) on the crust of snow. N. Amer. M19.

Acute appendicitis (medicine)


acute appendicitis
Acute inflammation of the appendix, usually due to bacterial infection, which may be precipitated by obstruction of the lumen by a fecalith; symptoms of periumbilical colicky pain and vomiting are followed by fever, leukocytosis, persistent pain, and signs of peritoneal inflammation in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen; perforation or abscess formation is a frequent complication.