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exanthema

American  
[eg-zan-thee-muh, ek-san-] / ˌɛg zænˈθi mə, ˌɛk sæn- /

noun

  • exanthemata,
    plural
  • exanthemas
    plural
  1. exanthem.


exanthema British  
/ ɛkˈsænθəm, ˌɛksænˈθiːmə /

noun

  1. a skin eruption or rash occurring as a symptom in a disease such as measles or scarlet fever

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of exanthema

First recorded in 1650–60

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Dogma makes dogmas or dogmata; exanthema, exanthemas or exanthemata; miasm or miasma, miasms or miasmata; stigma, stigmas or stigmata.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Several times we observed a faint icteric coloring and in some cases the appearance on neck and breast of an exanthema resembling measles.

From Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated by Fr. (Friedrich) Brendecke

Dogma makes dogmas or dogmata; exanthema, exanthemas or exanthemata; miasm or miasma, miasms or miasmata; stigma, stigmas or stigmata.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Just the reverse is true of yellow fever and of all the exanthemata, as scarlet fever, measles, small-pox; likewise of the analogous disorders, mumps and whooping cough.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

In certain conditions, particularly in acute exanthemata, and in the various forms of the hæmorrhagic diathesis, the clotting time is distinctly increased, or indeed clotting may remain in abeyance.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers

Thus, the furious initiative symptoms of pneumonia, of peritonitis, or erysipelas, of the exanthemata, are exaggerations of phenomena which are analogous to the phenomena accompanying physical injury and fear of physical violence.

From Origin and Nature of Emotions by George W. (Washington) Crile

In children there is a great tendency for acute inflammatory conditions of the middle ear to arise in connection with the exanthemata and in association with adenoids.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

The eruptions of this and other exanthemata, and of the different cutaneous diseases, will be best considered in the special articles treating them of in this work.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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