Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nettle-rash; uredo; hives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.
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- noun pathology
Itchy ,swollen , red areas of theskin which can appear quickly in response to anallergen or due to other conditions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In urticaria tuberosa the lesions, instead of being pea - or bean-sized, as in typical urticaria, are large and node-like (also called _giant urticaria_).
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Exceptionally the wheals, or lesions, are peculiar as to formation, or another condition or disease may be associated, hence the varieties known as urticaria papulosa, urticaria hæmorrhagica, urticaria tuberosa, and urticaria bullosa.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Chronic hives, also known as urticaria, are batches of raised, red or white itchy welts
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Chronic hives, also known as urticaria, are batches of raised, red or white itchy welts
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Thus, some persons cannot eat strawberries without a kind of urticaria appearing over the body; others are similarly affected by eating the striped bass; others, again, faint at the odor of certain flowers, or at the sight of blood; and some are attacked with cholera-morbus after eating shellfish -- as crabs, lobsters, clams, or mussels.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 Various
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IN 1918, May-ling, who had supervised the the family’s move to the new house on Seymour Road, ended up with little blisters all over her body, diagnosed as paint poison* but probably what she later called urticaria hives and what the doctors termed neurodermititis.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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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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PEGINTRON is contraindicated in patients with known hypersensitivity reactions such as urticaria, angioedema, bronchoconstriction, anaphylaxis, Stevens Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis to interferon alpha or any other component of the product, autoimmune hepatitis, and hepatic decompensation (Child-Pugh score greater than 6 [class B and C]) in cirrhotic CHC patients before or during treatment.
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PEGINTRON is contraindicated in patients with known hypersensitivity reactions such as urticaria, angioedema, bronchoconstriction, anaphylaxis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis to interferon alpha or any other component of the product, autoimmune hepatitis, and hepatic decompensation (Child-Pugh score >
sonofgroucho commented on the word urticaria
See "atopy". Related to angio-oedema.
October 7, 2007