apple jelly nodules
[ ăp′əl ]
n.
The papular lesions of lupus vulgaris as they appear on diascopy.
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Nearby words
apple butter, apple green, apple grunt, apple islander, apple isle, apple jelly nodules, apple maggot, apple of discord, apple of one's eye, apple of peru, apple pandowdy
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