"Terminology and Usage"
"The word phlegmon derives from the French "flegmon/fleugmon", in turn from Latin phlegma, which was one of the four bodily humours of ancient medicine. These terms in turn come from the ancient Greek, ϕλέγμα (transliterated as phlegma), which translates as inflammation; this itself came from ϕλέγειν (transliterated as phlegein), which means "to burn" and is also the origin of the English word phlegm 1,9."
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"Terminology and Usage"
"Radiographic appearance"
"CT"
"Historically and contemporaneously, phlegmon is used in an inconsistent fashion. The Oxford English Dictionary documents that it can mean an inflammatory mass or localised area of inflammation; diffuse, spreading inflammation; or cellulitis 1. The variant "phlegmonous change" may be used instead of "phlegmon" to suggest an ill-defined rather than mass-like process, but this distinction is not strict."
"Historically and contemporaneously, phlegmon is used in an inconsistent fashion. The Oxford English Dictionary documents that it can mean an inflammatory mass or localised area of inflammation; diffuse, spreading inflammation; or cellulitis 1. The variant "phlegmonous change" may be used instead of "phlegmon" to suggest an ill-defined rather than mass-like process, but this distinction is not strict."
"The word phlegmon derives from the French "flegmon/fleugmon", in turn from Latin phlegma, which was one of the four bodily humours of ancient medicine. These terms in turn come from the ancient Greek, ϕλέγμα (transliterated as phlegma), which translates as inflammation; this itself came from ϕλέγειν (transliterated as phlegein), which means "to burn" and is also the origin of the English word phlegm 1,9."