Croup - Law Dictionary Search Results

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Croupous

Relating to or resembling croup especially attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup as croupous laryngitis...

Croupy

Of or pertaining to croup resembling or indicating croup as a croupy cough...

Childcrowing

The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles false croup...

Croup

The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds especially of a horse hence the place behind the saddle...

Goose rumped

Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup said of certain horses...

Intubation

The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open as into the larynx in croup...

Manna croup

The portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings soups etc called also manna groats...

pallah

A large South African antelope AEligpyceros melampus The male has long lyrate and annulated horns The general color is bay with a black crescent on the croup Called also roodebok...

Infectious diseases. It is an indictable offence to expose in a public frequented highway a person suffering from an infectious disorder, R. v. Vantandillo, (1815) 4 M. & S. 73. The (English) Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), ss. 143 to 180, repealing (from October, 1937) ss. 120-143 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, contains various provisions calculated to prevent the spread of dangerous infectious diseases.Notification.--The (English) Public health Act, 1936, also repeals (from October, 1937) the (English) Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 72), and enjoins the notification to the Medical Officer of Health of the district of certain specific diseases therein named, and also of other diseases added to the list by the local authority, s. 343 enacting that 'notifiable disease.'--Means any of the following diseases, namely, small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, the disease known as scarlatina or scarlet fe...

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