exanthem

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

noun

, Pathology.

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

Other Words From

• ex·an·the·mat·ic [eg-zan-th, uh, -, mat, -ik, ek-san-], ex·an·them·a·tous [eg-zan-, them, -, uh, -t, uh, s, ek-san-], 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

In exceptional instances the intensity of the poison is such that the system fails to rally before the violence of the onset, and a fatal result ensues before the characteristic exanthem appears upon the skin.

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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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Behrend observed an opium exanthem, which was attended by intolerable itching, after the exhibition of a quarter of a grain.

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The initial lesions of the exanthem are dense and deeply-set papules, so closely coherent even at this moment that they scarcely leave between them interspaces of sound skin.

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At this stage of the disease the eruption greatly suggests an intense rubeolous exanthem, and has been, as a result, repeatedly mistaken for the so-called black measles.

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