The rash can be extensive, with individual lesions becoming confluent. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Adjective : confluent rivers; confluent ideas. ,confluent efflorescences. ,confluent smallpox. From Dictionary.com.
I ought to have sent to warn the police and the health officers of the city, for I was sure that the man was suffering from what is commonly called confluent smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Therne] Reference
In my former cases the pustule produced by the insertion of the virus was more like one of those which are so thickly spread over the body in a bad kind of confluent smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
'confluent' at the moment at which our imperfect knowing might pass into knowing of a completed type. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
Fruit-dots near the margin often confluent at maturity. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Then came a panorama of dazzling unstable confluent scenes. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
I never saw nor heard of an instance of its being confluent. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
So two lives, like confluent rivers, were unkindly torn apart. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
It occurs in three forms, discrete, confluent and hemorrhagic. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Ham's Fork, -- a confluent of Black's Fork, which empties into Green. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
The chin is a still larger drop, the confluent dripping of the face. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
Kyle of Sutherland, where it becomes confluent with the Oykel waters. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
The cataracts then become frequently confluent, though not more picturesque. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887] Reference
Black; closely and strongly punctured, the punctures confluent on the abdomen. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
I went in and found a child apparently in the worst stages of confluent smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Volga, is 1,266 miles long; the Oka, another confluent, has a length of 633 miles. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
One was our pretty Miss Sallie Lewis, who had the dread disease in confluent form. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference
It was some miles up this confluent that Colonel Snow's land lay, and by direction of. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
The swellings from the bites have become confluent, and are scarlet with inflammation. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
Marne at all, but on a little confluent some twenty or thirty miles from its junction. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
These adhesions, in turn, can be thick or thin, spotty or confluent (meaning together). From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Rock Positano: As Seen On TV: A Rare Fertility Disorder] Reference
One of them was seized with confluent small-pox, and his life was considered in great danger. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
Sori at the end of the veins at first small and roundish, but afterwards more or less confluent. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Indusium delicate, often reniform, or shaped like a horseshoe, in some forms confluent at maturity. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Black; the head and thorax with large confluent punctures; the face clothed with fulvous pubescence. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
It was a brook -- a confluent of Cranbury Brook, and was wide enough to require a good deal of jumping. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
It was a brook — a confluent of Cranbury Brook, and was wide enough to require a good deal of jumping. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
Salmasius was in the hands of a party; and his prejudices, it may be thought, were confluent with theirs. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
He had it of the confluent kind, as it is called, and the child's life was for a week or two despaired of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
By some, however, it is supposed that all the stamens are confluent with the column and none with the lip. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Fruit-dots oblong in chain-like rows along the midrib both of the pinnæ and the lobes, confluent when ripe. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Fused: run together: applied when two normally separated markings become confluent and have a common outline. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
We are warned that the following species are "difficult of extrication," either confluent or mixed by intercrossing. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference
What does this mean, except that the channels were divided, out of one confluent stream, either above or below Paradise?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
It may be distinct on some parts, as on the body, and confluent on others, as the arms, face, and parts most exposed to the air. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time] Reference
Pinnules oblong, obtuse, serrate at the apex, obscurely so at the sides, the basal incisely lobed, distant, the upper confluent. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
State Railway over the valley which forms the bed of the river Retiro, a small confluent on the left bank of the river Parahybuna. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887] Reference
And I agree that your awareness of the tributaries of events and flow in history, is spotty and selective, not forming confluent sense. From Wordnik.com. [Slimy Love 4: In Your Face. A Monologue Of An Angry Jew] Reference
These two memorials help each other and enlarge the common current of testimony, like two confluent streams coming from opposite sources. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
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