Definitions

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

  • noun A skin eruption accompanying certain infectious diseases.
  • noun A disease, such as measles or scarlet fever, accompanied by a skin eruption.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any diffuse or multiple affection of the skin marked by inflammation or simple hyperemia, or by effusion of lymph, or excessive exfoliation of epidermis, but usually restricted to skin-affections belonging to zymotic fevers. Also exanthem.
  • noun A zymotic fever of which a skin-affection is normally one of the symptoms, as scarlatina or measles.
  • noun In botany, same as die-back.

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

  • noun (Med.) An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.

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

  • noun Alternative spelling of exanthem.

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

  • noun eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin exanthēma, from Greek, eruption, from exanthein, to burst forth : ex-, ex- + anthein, to blossom (from anthos, flower).]

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Examples

  • Several times we observed a faint icteric coloring and in some cases the appearance on neck and breast of an exanthema resembling measles.

    Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876

  • The post doctoral fellow will conduct a project exploring the pathophysiology of drug allergies (exanthema, toxic epidermal necrolysis …).

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  • Viruses that MDCK cells are susceptible to include vesicular stomatitis (Indiana strain), vaccinia, coxsackievirus B5, reovirus 2 and 3, adenovirus 4 and 5, vesicular exanthema of swine, and infectious canine hepatitis.

    unknown title 2009

  • Viruses that MDCK cells are susceptible to include vesicular stomatitis (Indiana strain), vaccinia, coxsackievirus B5, reovirus 2 and 3, adenovirus 4 and 5, vesicular exanthema of swine, and infectious canine hepatitis.

    unknown title 2009

  • Viruses that MDCK cells are susceptible to include vesicular stomatitis (Indiana strain), vaccinia, coxsackievirus B5, reovirus 2 and 3, adenovirus 4 and 5, vesicular exanthema of swine, and infectious canine hepatitis.

    unknown title 2009

  • Viruses that MDCK cells are susceptible to include vesicular stomatitis (Indiana strain), vaccinia, coxsackievirus B5, reovirus 2 and 3, adenovirus 4 and 5, vesicular exanthema of swine, and infectious canine hepatitis.

    unknown title 2009

  • A single case of the paralytic form of EHV-1 was reported from the United Kingdom, which also reported EHV-3 coital exanthema in a Thoroughbred stallion, a donkey, and one other horse on separate premises.

    TheHorse.com News 2008

  • Comparative resistance of San Miguel sea lion virus and vesicular exanthema of swine virus to chemical disinfectants

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  • •GORE aliquantum repellitur: & ficuti omne vivum a tepido refocillatur, nimis vero calido propelli - tur; fic a calpre Scabies. & exanthema intenditHf,

    Caroli a Linné equit. aur. de stella polari archiatri regii med. et botan. profess. Upsal. Acad ... 1788

  • No payment shall be made, as provided in this section, unless the director has determined that the owner of such an animal has complied with the provisions of this section and other applicable provisions of this chapter and rules and regulations of the division established thereunder and that the owner or his representative has not, in the opinion of the director, by willful act or neglect, contributed to the spread of vesicular stomatitis or vesicular exanthema.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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