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Definition of Scarlatina
1. Noun. An acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash.
Definition of Scarlatina
1. n. Scarlet fever.
Definition of Scarlatina
1. Noun. (pathology) scarlet fever ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scarlatina
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Medical Definition of Scarlatina
1. An acute illness, characterised by a reddish skin rash, which is caused by a systemic infection with the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarlatina
Literary usage of Scarlatina
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.) (1902)
"Eosino- philes are more rare in scarlatina, c. In the scarlatiniform erythema
abnormal forms are encountered which are absent in scarlatina. ..."
2. On Diseases of the Skin by Erasmus Wilson (1857)
"scarlatina is an acute inflammation of the tegumentary investment of the entire
... The varieties of scarlatina, which are merely modifications in degree of ..."
3. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1894)
"scarlatina since the beginning of Registration, 1837. The first returns of the
causes of death under the new Registration Act happened to correspond with a ..."
4. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1893)
"COW scarlatina AGAIN. IT is probable that there are very few readers of this
Journal who think it worth while to seriously discuss whether the disease ..."
5. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"and in the one instance in which scarlatina occurred after the epidemic ...
Sometimes in scarlatina ulcers occur upon the tongue, cheeks and gums, ..."
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