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Definition of Molluscum contagiosum

1. Noun. A virus disease of the skin marked by round white swellings; transmitted from person to person (most often in children or in adults with impaired immune function).

Definition of Molluscum contagiosum

1. Noun. A viral infection of the skin or occasionally of the mucous membranes caused by a DNA poxvirus called the molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV). ¹

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Medical Definition of Molluscum contagiosum

1. A skin condition caused by a pox virus infection, distinguished by small dome-shaped papules (bumps) on the face, upper trunk or extremities. Current treatment is mainly cosmetic. It often involves application of liquid nitrogen to the papules as a means of excising them. (10 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Molluscum Contagiosum

Literary usage of Molluscum contagiosum

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 (1891)
"They were roundish or oval in shape, clear or colloid and almost structureless, and much resembled the " molluscum bodies " of molluscum contagiosum. ..."

2. Treatise on Diseases of the Skin for the Use of Advanced Students and by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1914)
"Judging from its favorable influence in sycosis, the x-ray treatment should be of value in this disease. molluscum contagiosum Synonyms. ..."

3. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"molluscum contagiosum (molluscum sebaceum) is a disease of the sebaceous glands (according to some authors, of the rete muco- sum) characterized by the ..."

4. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1885)
"TWO EPIDEMICS OF molluscum contagiosum. BY WF MITTENDORF, MD, NF.W YORK. THK contagiousness of the affection known as molluscum contagiosum has been a ..."

5. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1882)
"THE HISTOLOGY OF molluscum contagiosum.1 By GEORGE THIN, MD (PLATE IX.) IT is somewhat remarkable that the mode of origin of mollus- cum contagiosum should ..."

6. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1841)
"Notice of the molluscum contagiosum. By WILLIAM HF.NDERSON, MD. Physician to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Lecturer on Pathology and Practice of Medicine. ..."

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