Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to exanthemata.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
exanthem .
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Examples
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On account of the rash it causes the disease has been called exanthematous typhus; it has nothing in common, however, with what is properly called typhoid, i.e. enteric fever.
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Measles or Rubeola is an exanthematous or eruptive contagious form of children's disease.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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Description: The most beneficial salve in case of inflamed wounds, boils or exanthematous eruptions.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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Scarlet fever is an exanthematous form of disease distinguished by a scarlet eruption of the skin.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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An increased supply of blood in the skin seems in some manner to increase its blackness; thus certain exanthematous diseases cause the affected places in the negro to appear blacker, instead of, as with us, redder. 16 The skin, perhaps, from being rendered more tense by the filling of the capillaries, would reflect a somewhat different tint to what it did before.
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White 9.348 speaks of a case of exanthematous eruption similar to that of ivy-poison in mother and child, which was apparently caused by playing with and burning the toy called ` ` Pharaoh's serpent egg. ''
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White speaks of a case of exanthematous eruption similar to that of ivy-poison in mother and child, which was apparently caused by playing with and burning the toy called "Pharaoh's serpent egg."
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The _suppurative_ form may be due either to direct spread of infection from adjacent parts, as, for example, in middle ear disease, suppurative parotitis, or pyogenic affections of the mandible, or it may be part of a general pyæmic infection, as sometimes occurs after exanthematous fevers and in gonorrhœa.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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It is also useful in promoting the cutaneous excretions in exanthematous diseases, where the eruptions are tardy.
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Thus a species of epidemic leprosy is common among the Cossacks of the Jaik, which is attended by pains in the joints and a disgust for copulation, a disgust the more extraordinary, not only because exanthematous diseases, in general excite a desire for the above act, but also inasmuch as this malady, in particular usually attacks persons in the prime of their youth.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833
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