Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
exanthema . - noun In botany, a blotch or excrescence on the surface of a leaf, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
exanthema .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A widespread
rash usually occurring in children.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease
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Examples
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Behrend 9.321 observed an opium exanthem, which was attended by intolerable itching, after the exhibition of a quarter of a grain.
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The dermal manifestations, such as urticaria and eruptions resembling the exanthem of scarlatina, are too well known to need mention here.
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The dermal manifestations, such as urticaria and eruptions resembling the exanthem of scarlatina, are too well known to need mention here.
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Behrend observed an opium exanthem, which was attended by intolerable itching, after the exhibition of a quarter of a grain.
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Soon thereafter, HHV-6 was noted to be ubiquitous and a principal cause of the common childhood disease exanthem subitum (also referred to as roseola or sixth disease) [89].
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The linkage of exanthem subitum to febrile seizures, along with the identification of HHV-6 as the causative pathogen for exanthem subitum, led naturally to the hypothesis that HHV-6 infection may underlie many cases of febrile seizures.
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When a patient develops encephalitis in association with exanthem subitum, the signs of encephalitis usually arise during the febrile phase of the illness before the onset of rash [89].
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A hallmark of exanthem subitum is a rapid onset of high fever.
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Acute viral infection is another common cause of acute urticaria (viral exanthem).
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Acute viral infection is another common cause of acute urticaria (viral exanthem).
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