exanthem

[eg-zan-thuhm, ig-, ek-san-]

noun

Pathology.

1. an eruptive disease, especially one attended with fever, as smallpox or measles.

Other Word Forms

• exanthematic adjective
• exanthematous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of exanthem¹

1650–60; < Late Latin exanthēma < Greek exánthēma skin eruption, breaking forth, literally, a bursting into flower, equivalent to ex- ex- ³ + anthē- (verbid stem of antheîn to blossom; antho- ) + -ma noun suffix

Example Sentences

None of these flash-light warnings of the oncoming exanthem are proportioned to the latter in the matter of extent and intensity of development.

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Uncomplicated measles too, generally runs its course with a marked leukopenia, specially distinct during the breaking out and at the height of the exanthem.

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The dermal manifestations, such as urticaria and eruptions resembling the exanthem of scarlatina, are too well known to need mention here.

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Aside from the trivial accidents to which the exanthem may be subject, the hemorrhagic types of variola may be regarded as necessarily grave and in a large proportion of cases inevitably fatal.

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After the high fever and severe cephalic and lumbar pains of this stage there may follow, in the case of varioloid, a complete defervescence and the appearance of a very copious exanthem.

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