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erythematous
[er-uh-them-uh-tuhs, ‑-thee-muh‑]
adjective
abnormally inflamed or reddened.
Clinical signs include the presence of dry, fissured lips and a coated, erythematous, and fissured tongue.
Word History and Origins
Origin of erythematous1
Example Sentences
But more significantly, another joke at singer Seal’s expense was not about his race — it was about his FACE, which is scarred by a type of lupus called discoid lupus erythematous.
“Their appearance meant blood vessels had broken in those areas. Over the next couple of days, the rash would progress until the spots coalesced into generalized, large red erythematous rash from head to toe.”
There occasionally appears in the later stages of this disease around the wound a reddish erythematous blush, which soon extends over the whole limb.
Blushing is an illustration of mental influence on the skin, and anything that would tend to make this endure for some time would give rise to erythematous conditions.
The skin becomes covered with an erythematous blush, on which numerous tiny vesicles form.
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