aerogenic

Updated: May 17, 2025

To be able to distinguish between the generalization of a septic infection in its incipiency, and a more or less benign edema, is largely possible by digital manipulation alone. An extremity may be greatly swollen because of the existence of chronic lymphangitis, influenza, or an acute septic infection occasioned by the introduction of pathogenic and aerogenic organisms.

John Victor Lacroix - Lameness of the Horse: Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1