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exanthem
[ eg-zan-thuhm, ig-, ek-san- ]
noun
- an eruptive disease, especially one attended with fever, as smallpox or measles.
Other Word Forms
- ··ٳ·· [eg-zan-th, uh, -, mat, -ik, ek-san-], ··ٳ··ٴdzܲ [eg-zan-, them, -, uh, -t, uh, s, ek-san-], adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
During the delay the variolous exanthem should betray its individuality by the formation of a minute vesicular apex at the summit of several papules.
Uncomplicated measles too, generally runs its course with a marked leukopenia, specially distinct during the breaking out and at the height of the exanthem.
The dermal manifestations, such as urticaria and eruptions resembling the exanthem of scarlatina, are too well known to need mention here.
On the other hand, some maladies occurring in connection with this exanthem do not change its symptoms, but themselves undergo modification.
The initial lesions of the exanthem are dense and deeply-set papules, so closely coherent even at this moment that they scarcely leave between them interspaces of sound skin.
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