ECZEMA
\ˈɛkzəmə], \ˈɛkzəmə], \ˈɛ_k_z_ə_m_ə]\
Definitions of ECZEMA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
By Noah Webster.
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A pruritic papulovesicular dermatitis occurring as a reaction to many endogenous and exogenous agents (Dorland, 27th ed).
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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Heat eruption. An eruption of small vesicles on various parts of the skin, usually set close or crowded together; with little or no inflammation around their bases, and unattended by fever.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn.: salt rheum, tetter, humid tetter, scall, scald, heat eruption. A non-contagious inflammatory disease of the skin, sometimes acute, more often chronic, attended with itching, with desquamation or loss of the cuticle, and usually with the exudation of a serous or seropurulent fluid, either beneath the cuticle or upon the denuded surface. The lesions vary with the stage and character of the case, and include erythema, papules, vesicles, pustules, erosions, fissures, scales, crusts, and thickening of the skin due to hyperplastic changes. The varieties of eczema are: eczema craquette, eczema intertrigo, eczema madidans, eczema marginatum, eczema papillomatosum, eczema rhagadiforme, eczema rimosum, eczema rubrum, eczema rubrum scrofulosorum, eczema sclerosum, eczema seborrheicum, eczema squamosum, eczema tuberculatum, eczema verrucosum.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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