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Definition of Lupus

1. Noun. Any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease.

2. Noun. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Centaurus.

Definition of Lupus

1. n. A cutaneous disease occurring under two distinct forms.

Definition of Lupus

1. Proper noun. (constellation) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a wolf. It lies south of the constellation Libra. ¹

2. Noun. (disease) A debilitating autoimmune disease which attacks the whole body, causing skin sores, pains throughout the body, lack of breath, and kidney and heart problems. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lupus

1. a skin disease [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Lupus

1. A systemic disease that results from an autoimmune mechanism. Individuals with lupus will produce antibodies to their own body tissues. The resultant inflammation can cause kidney damage, arthritis, pericarditis and vasculitis. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lupus

lupins lupoid lupoid hepatitis lupoid leishmaniasis lupoid sycosis lupoid ulcer lupous luppen luppie luppies

lupulin lupuline lupulinic lupulinic acid lupulins lupus lupus-like syndrome lupus anticoagulant lupus anticoagulants lupus band test

lupus coagulation inhibitor lupus erythematodes lupus erythematosus lupus erythematosus cell lupus erythematosus cell test lupus erythematosus profundus lupus erythematosus test lupus glomerulonephritis-pathology lupus livido

Literary usage of Lupus

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.) (1907)
"Here and there in the midst of die cicatrix were isolated or confluent nodules, undoubtedly the tubercles of lupus vulgaris. Four years before the patient ..."

2. On diseases of the skin: A System of Cutaneous Medicine by Erasmus Wilson (1868)
"Moreover, lupus sometimes creeps more or less superficially over the surface of the skin, healing in the centre and leaving behind it a permanent cicatrix, ..."

3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1904)
"CASES of Lupus in which the lesions are multiple and scattered over distant ... Hutchinson has called attention to the fact that when Lupus vulgaris is ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1893)
"A lupus nodule consists, in its earliest stage, of a collection of 1 The ... Mr Hutchinson groups a very large number of diseases under the name lupus, ..."

5. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for advanced students and practitioners by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1916)
"In such cases, in some instances, there is later developed a tendency in the outlying skin to the formation of lupus tubercles, and the disease may later ..."

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