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Definition of Pemphigus

1. Noun. A skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane.

Definition of Pemphigus

1. n. A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body.

Definition of Pemphigus

1. Noun. (pathology) A severe autoimmune skin disease characterized by pustules and painful blisters, and which can be fatal. ¹

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Definition of Pemphigus

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Medical Definition of Pemphigus

1. A group of chronic, relapsing, sometimes fatal skin diseases characterised clinically by the development of successive crops of vesicles and bullae, histologically by acantholysis and immunologically by serum autoantibodies directed against antigens in the intracellular zones of the epidermis. The specific disease is usually indicated by a modifying term, but the term pemphigus is often used alone to designate pemphigus vulgaris. Origin: Gr. Pemphix = blister This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Pemphigus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"pemphigus vulgaris, of which there is an acute febrile form and also a chronic or ... pemphigus foliaceous, an extremely rare disease. 3. pemphigus vegetans ..."

2. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"pemphigus. Definition.—pemphigus is an acute or chronic disease characterized ... Clinically, pemphigus may be separated into four distinct types: pemphigus ..."

3. Treatise on Diseases of the Skin for the Use of Advanced Students and by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1914)
"158; Moldenhauer, "Ein Beitrag zur Lehre vom pemphigus acutus," Archiv für Gynäkol., 1874, vol. vi, p. 369 (IDI cases observed in a period of about a ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"pemphigus," according to the definition of ... According to Crocker,2 pemphigus is a comparatively rare disease, occurring once in 500 cases of skin ..."

5. Text-book of ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1892)
"Hence, the prognosis of pemphigus is very unfavorable—the more so as both eyes are ... pemphigus of the conjunctiva is generally found in conjunction with ..."

6. An Introduction to dermatology by Norman Purvis Walker (1905)
"pemphigus (Plaie X) is not an easy disease to define, or to classify. As already mentioned, it is ... As the name indicates, pemphigus is a bullous disease. ..."

7. On diseases of the skin: A System of Cutaneous Medicine by Erasmus Wilson (1868)
"The local suffering attendant on pemphigus is a moderate amount of itching, tingling, and smarting on the first appearance of the eruption, ..."

8. Portfolio of Dermochromes by Jerome Kingsbury, William Gaynor States, Eduard Jacobi (1913)
"pemphigus Vulgaris Plate 10, FIG. 16 pemphigus is a term that has been applied to a variety of bullous affections, certain of which have but little in ..."

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