What does the word eruption mean?
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1. A breaking out, especially the appearance of lesions on the skin. 2. Redness, spotting, or other visible phenomena on the skin or mucous membranes, especially when appearing as a local manifestation of a general disease, such as typhoid fever or one of the exanthemata. An eruption is characterized, according to the nature of the lesion, as bullous, erythematous, macular, papular, etc. 3. The passage of a tooth through the alveolar process and gum ( permanent) or the gum only ( deciduous) to the open, cutting of a tooth.
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This word has several meanings. 1. The sudden and copious evacuation of any fluid from a canal or cavity-of serum, blood, pus, &c, for example; 2. The breaking out of an exanthem; and, 3. the exanthem itself, whether simply in the form of a rash, or of pustules, vesicles, &c.
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[ Latin] A breaking out; the act of breaking out so as to become visible, as E. of the teeth; especially, the breaking out of a characteristic visible lesion( exanthem) upon the skin or mucous membrane; also the lesion itself. Es may be DUE to local irritation or inflammation, to the ingestion of medicines( Medicinal e’s), or to general diseases( exanthematous diseases). An e. may be under the FORM of spots( Macular e.) due to congestion, pigmentation, or haemorrhage( Petechial e.); of diffused redness( Erythematous e.); of wheals or flattened elevations; of small solid elevations( Papular e.); of large solid elevations( Tubercular e.); of small blisters( Vesicular e.); of large blisters or blebs( Bullous e.); of pustules( Pustular e.); of crusts( Crustaceous e.); or of scales( Squamous or Scaly e.).
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