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Definition of Scleredema
1. Noun. A skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face.
Medical Definition of Scleredema
1. Hard nonpitting oedema of the skin of the dorsal aspect of the upper body and extremities, giving a waxy appearance and no sharp demarcation; seen in diabetics and in scleredema adultorum. Origin: scler-+ G. Oidema, a swelling (oedema) (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scleredema
Literary usage of Scleredema
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1918)
"Prognosis.—The disease is usually, but not invariably, fatal. Diagnosis.—Scleroderma
and scleredema, the only conditions resembling ..."
2. Reference handbook of the diseases of children for students and physicians by Ferdinand Frühwald, Thompson Seiser Westcott (1906)
"scleredema Neonatorum.—The name itself indicates the essential feature of the
... scleredema usually begins during the very first days of life and first ..."
3. The Diseases of Children by Henry Enos Tuley (1913)
"In scleredema there is a subnormal temperature, with dry, cold skin. The parts
first affected are usually the calves of the legs, the thighs, abdominal wall ..."
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