DERMATITIS
\dˌɜːmɐtˈa͡ɪtɪs], \dˌɜːmɐtˈaɪtɪs], \d_ˌɜː_m_ɐ_t_ˈaɪ_t_ɪ_s]\
Definitions of DERMATITIS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Inflammation of the skin; due to injury (D. traumatica); the local action of chemical or other irritants, as poison ivy (D. venenata); the action of heat (D. calorica, D. ambustionis, D. combustionis, sunburn) or cold (D. congelationis, chilblain, frost-bite), or of Roentgen rays ( x-ray d.); or the action of medicines internally administered (D. medicamentosa), especially bromine and the bromides, iodine and the iodides, arsenic, chloral, copaiba, quinine, salicylic acid, and opium. D. contusiformis, erythema nodosum. D. epidemica, an epidemic, apparently contagious, often fatal, disease, marked by papules or blotches which soon become confluent, forming a crimson, desquamating surface, either dry or moist, and associated with itching, burning, and pain. Albuminuria common. Probably a form of d. exfoliativa. D. erythematosa, erythema. D. exfoliativa, a disease, in which the skin either generally or in circumscribed patches becomes reddened and covered with scales which afterward exfoliate. Associated with fever and other constitutional symptoms; often fatal. D. exfoliativa epidemica, d. epidemica. D., Fungoid, mycosis fungoides. D. gangraenosa, d. associated with gangrene, as in Raynauds disease; especially, a disease (D. gangroenosa multiplex) marked by multiple foci of gangrene in the skin, occurring either in infants (often as a complication of varicella) (D. gangraenosa infantum) or in adults (in diabetes, etc.). D. glandularis erythematosa, lupus erythematosus. D. herpetiformis (D. multiformis), a rare, frequently fatal disease associated with fever and multiform cutaneous lesions of a generally herpetic type attended with pruritus and burning. D., Malignant papillary, Pagets disease. D. papillaris capillitii, a rare disease of the scalp, in which there are minute elevations of the surface with intermediate pustules, produced by inflammation of the skin and subjacent tissue, and terminating in cicatricial circumscribed elevations like a keloid. D. repens, a spreading d. following slight injuries and often lasting for months; ascribed to peripheral neuritis and secondary infection. D. seborrhoica, eczema seborrhoicum.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Inflammations of the skin, due, for the most part, to external irritants. The classification excludes eczema, but includes d. medicamentosa in which the skin lesions are caused by the action of drugs, either applied to the skin or taken internally. The principal forms of d. are: d. venenata, erythema alb igne, erythema simplex, erythema solare, intertrigo, x-ray d. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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