Word of the day: fulminant

The word of the day is fulminant: 

1. occurring suddenly and with great intensity or severity
2. Pathology. developing or progressing suddenly

c.1600, from Fr. fulminant or directly from L. fulminantem, prp. of fulminare (see fulminate). (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fulminant)

"Jenny, Goldstein realized, 'has leukemia and is currently in the hospital because she developed jaundice.  Her eyeballs are still yellow'—presaging fulminant liver failure."

 - Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer