Definition of Exanthema

1. Noun. Eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease.

Exact synonyms: Exanthem, Skin Eruption
Generic synonyms: Eruption

Definition of Exanthema

1. n. An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.

Definition of Exanthema

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of exanthem) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exanthema

1. [n -MATA or -MAS]

Medical Definition of Exanthema

1. Exanthem, an eruptive disease or its symptomatic eruption. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exanthema

exampled
exampler
examplers
examples
exampling
exams
exanewton
exanewtons
exanguious
exanimate
exanimation
exanimous
exannulate
exanthem
exanthem subitum
exanthema (current term)
exanthema subitum
exanthemas
exanthemata
exanthematic
exanthematous
exanthematous fever
exanthemic
exanthemous
exanthems
exanthesis
exanthesis arthrosia
exanthrope
exanthropic
exantlate

Literary usage of Exanthema

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

1. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"Cypraea exanthema Linnaeus, Krebs, The West Indian Marine Shells, p. 41. 1878. ... Cypraea exanthema Linnaeus, Jaume and Perez Farfante, Soc. Cubana Hist. ..."

2. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1912)
"Coital exanthema is a disease of cattle and horses, more rarely of sheep and hogs, characterized by vesicular exanthema of the external genital organs. ..."

3. Text-book of Meat Hygiene: With Special Consideration to Ante-mortem and by Richard Heinrich Edelmann, John Robbins Mohler (1908)
"Vesicular exanthema of Horses and Cattle This contagious disease of the ... The meat of animals afflicted with vesicular exanthema, is generally fit for ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1835)
"... account of these eruptions. the true febrile exanthema has been often confounded, and the real character of the disease thereby frequently obscured. ..."

5. Text Book of Veterinary Medicine by James Law (1906)
"In this it agrees with the mild coital exanthema of horses, and the two affections have been considered as identical with each other and with cowpox ..."

6. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1902)
"The exanthema in weakly children may be limited in its distribution and not ... Henoch believes that many cases in which the exanthema does not develop in ..."

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