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Definition of Lupus erythematosus
1. Noun. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
Medical Definition of Lupus erythematosus
1. Skin disease in which there are red scaly patches, especially over the nose and cheeks. May be a symptom of systemic lupus erythematosus. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lupus Erythematosus
Literary usage of Lupus erythematosus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1908)
"to throw much doubt on any relationship whatever between lupus erythematosus and
tuberculosis. It is perhaps unwise to draw the conclusion that there is ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"... many of which showed a central umbilication; there was no fever nor were there
any subjective symptoms. A New Method of Treating lupus erythematosus. ..."
3. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"These two affections are distinguished as lupus erythematosus and Lupus Vulgaris.
When the term lupus is used alone it is applied only to the latter disease ..."
4. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for advanced students and practitioners by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1916)
"The *-ray has a value in tats cases also. lupus erythematosus .Synonyms. ...
-lupus erythematosus is a chronic, mildly or moderately inflammatory, ..."
5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1895)
"to be a certain number of cases in which the clinical features of lupus vulgaris
resemble most closely those of lupus erythematosus. ..."
6. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"lupus erythematosus. Synonyms. ... Clinically, lupus erythematosus may be
circumscribed (discoid) or disseminated (lupus ..."
7. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"IS lupus erythematosus DISCOIDES CHRON- ICUS DUE TO TUBERCULOSIS?* WILLIAM H.
GOECKERMAN The question of the relationship of lupus erythematosus to ..."
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