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Definition of Roseola infantilis
1. Noun. A viral disease of infants and young children; characterized by abrupt high fever and mild sore throat; a few days later there is a faint pinkish rash that lasts for a few hours to a few days.
Medical Definition of Roseola infantilis
1. Another name for Roseola. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roseola Infantilis
Literary usage of Roseola infantilis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"roseola infantilis is sometimes described as a distinct affection, in which there
are fever and constitutional disturbance lasting for a few hours or even a ..."
2. On diseases of the skin: A System of Cutaneous Medicine by Erasmus Wilson (1868)
"E) is the roseola infantilis a festiva of Willan, the false measles, or rubeola
notha, of other write but as the exanthem, although most common in childhood ..."
3. Hand-book of Skin Diseases by Isidor Neumann (1872)
"These subdivisions are of no very great importance, but need to be known, since
the terms are in general use. As may bo imagined, the roseola infantilis is ..."
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