Etymology Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”). By surface analysis, fulmin(ate) + -ant or fulmine + -ant.
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That fulminates.
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Medicine, SciencesEspecially Appearing quickly and with destructive effects.
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.1983, Friedrich Deinhardt, Jean Deinhardt, editors, Viral Hepatitis: Laboratory and Clinical Science, Marcel Dekker, page 296:
When his liver function was measured, an acute, fulminant hepatitis was discovered.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 280:
Etymology Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”). By surface analysis, fulmin(ate) + -ant or fulmine + -ant.
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A thunderbolt.
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An explosive.
The excessive danger in handling fulminants was not balanced by any prospective reward.1893, Lowis Jalkson, Ten Centuries of European Progress, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, page 128: