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Eczema   /ˈɛksəmə/   Listen
Eczema

noun
1.
Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages.



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"Eczema" Quotes from Famous Books



... urination or the incomplete emptying of the urethra that is peculiar to old age, and which results in more or less dribbling, is a powerful factor in inducing the many attacks of posthitis and balanitis, as well as those attacks of excoriation and eczema which are so annoying to the aged. I have often seen such cases happening to men past fifty, who, being widowers, and never having had anything of the kind, as well as being in the most complete ignorance of the nature of the disease, have, from delicacy and fear that the disease ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino

... flies even before death. Typhus has a mouse-like odor, and the following diseases have at different times been described as having peculiar odors,—measles, the smell of freshly plucked feathers; scarlatina, of bread hot from the oven; eczema and impetigo, the smell of mold; and ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould



Words linked to "Eczema" :   disease of the skin, skin disease, dermatitis, skin disorder, lichtenoid eczema, baker's eczema, Kaposi's varicelliform eruption



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