supervene

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Complications may arise, the strength may fail, the secretions may become too abundant, and asphyxia may ensue; emphysema may show itself, or catarrhal pneumonia may gradually supervene.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The typhoid state may supervene in either, and in both the febrile movement is remittent in character.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

You cannot absolve psychology as if it stood independent of ethics or religion, nor can aesthetic considerations merely supervene on moral.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

In some cases the symptoms of cerebral disturbance are greater in degree, and in these coma may soon supervene upon delirium.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Muscular paralyses, hemiplegic and paraplegic attacks, albuminuria, diarrhoea, and the inflammations of chronic type affecting the thoracic organs may each supervene, and either greatly prolong convalescence or precipitate a fatal issue.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various