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- noun Plural form of
exanthema .
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Examples
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During the heats of summer, some few persons of gross habits have, in consequence of violent exercise and excess, been seized with putrid fevers, attended with exanthemata, erisipelatous, and miliary eruptions, which commonly prove fatal: but the people in general are healthy, even those that take very little exercise: a strong presumption in favour of the climate!
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On the other hand, to the processes produced by monadina belong especially a large series of diseases, which according to their clinical and anatomical features, may be characterized as inflammatory processes, acute exanthemata, and infective tumors, or leucocytoses.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various
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The pyogenic infections and the exanthemata constitute the great majority of infections and are the basis of the discussion which follows.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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Thus, the furious initiative symptoms of pneumonia, of peritonitis, or erysipelas, of the exanthemata, are exaggerations of phenomena which are analogous to the phenomena accompanying physical injury and fear of physical violence.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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The primary, and perhaps the most striking, difference between the painless exanthemata and the painful pyogenic infections is that in the case of the exanthemata the protective response of the body is a chemical one, -- the formation of antibodies in the blood, which usually produce permanent immunity, -- while the response to the pyogenic infections is largely phagocytic.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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# -- It sometimes happens that when an acute infective disease, especially one of the exanthemata, supervenes while
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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In children there is a great tendency for acute inflammatory conditions of the middle ear to arise in connection with the exanthemata and in association with adenoids.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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It varies somewhat in colour and consistence, and may be associated with such intra-nasal conditions as purulent rhinitis following scarlet fever and other exanthemata or ulceration accompanying malignant disease, syphilis, or tuberculosis.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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J. Royes Bell, in the "International Encyclopædia of Surgery," pays more attention to it than any of our American authors; mentioning, among the causes which may give rise to it, the exanthemata, especially small-pox, and the poisoning by ergot of rye and erysipelas.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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We can understand and appreciate what Koch tells us in regard to the different susceptibilities exhibited by the house-mice and the field-mice to the anthrax bacillus, or why a nursing child should offer different results, when exposed to the diphtheria bacillus or the contagious poison of any of the exanthemata, from those witnessed in the meat or promiscuously dieted child.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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