Lupus

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A constellation of stars in the Southern Hemisphere near Centaurus and Scorpius.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A genus of Canidæ, comprising the wolves, but having no characters by which it can be distinguished from Canis. In this nomenclature the common gray wolf of North America is called Lupus occidentalis.
• noun [lowercase] The specific designation of the common wolf, Canis lupus.
• noun An ancient southern constellation, the Wolf, representing a beast held by the hand of the Centaur. It has two stars of the third magnitude.
• noun [lowercase] In pathology
• noun Lupus vulgaris, a tuberculosis of the skin, presenting clinically reddish-brown patches made up of papules, tubercles, and flat infiltrations.
• noun Lupus erythematosus, a chronic dermatitis, beginning in one or more papules which grow so as to cover a large patch.
• noun The Pacific fulmar petrel, Fulmarus glacialis rodgersi.
• noun Lupus exedens, a form of lupus in which there is ulceration of the affected parts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Med.) originally, a cutaneous disease with the appearance of the skin having been gnawed, and occurring under two distinct forms. Now used as a generic term for over ten distinguishable diseases having visible cutaneous symptoms.
• noun (Astron.) The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• proper noun astronomy A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a wolf. It lies south of the constellation Libra.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease
• noun a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Centaurus