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Throatwort

in botany: (1) Campanula trachelium, the nettle-leaved bellflower; a tall, hispid plant, with an angled stem, ovate-lanceolate leaves, and bluish-purple flowers; found in England, the European continent, etc. (2) C. cervicaria, which has light-blue flowers, and is a native of Germany. (3) Digitalis purpurea.

THRUSH either in the heart or a blood-vessel during life. When it occurs in the systemic veins it is called Phlegmasia dolens. formed by blood effused from a vein and coagulated in the adjacent tissue; the coagulum or clot, usually fibrinous in texture, which partially or totally closes

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