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Webster 1913 Edition


Sequela

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Se-que′la

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Noun.
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pl.
Sequelae
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[L., a follower, a result, from
sequit
to follow.]
One who, or that which, follows.
Specifically:
(a)
An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents.
“Coleridge and his sequela.”
G. P. Marsh.
(b)
That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.
Sequelae
, or thoughts suggested by the preceding aphorisms.
Coleridge.
(c)
(Med.)
A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.