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語源

Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”). By surface analysis, fulmin(ate) +‎ -ant or fulmine +‎ -ant.

形容詞

fulminant (not comparable)

1. That fulminates.
2. (especially medicine) Appearing quickly and with destructive effects.
   • 1983, Friedrich Deinhardt, Jean Deinhardt, editors, Viral Hepatitis: Laboratory and Clinical Science, Marcel Dekker, page 296:

     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.

   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 280:

     When his liver function was measured, an acute, fulminant hepatitis was discovered.

派生語

名詞

fulminant (plural fulminants)

1. A thunderbolt.
2. An explosive.
   • 1893, Lowis Jalkson, Ten Centuries of European Progress, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, page 128:

     The excessive danger in handling fulminants was not balanced by any prospective reward.