ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fulminant

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Fulminant is an adjective meaning That fulminates.

Meaning

That fulminates.

More Meanings

  1. (especially medicine) Appearing quickly and with destructive effects.
  2. A thunderbolt.
  3. An explosive.

Example Sentences

When his liver function was measured, an acute, fulminant hepatitis was discovered.
The excessive danger in handling fulminants was not balanced by any prospective reward.
Fulminant hepatitis seems to be more common in females than in males (11).[…]In contrast to common belief, Chalmers (17) has shown that physical exercise during infectious hepatitis does not increase the risk of a fulminant course of disease.

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