(n.) A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Skin affected by a burn cancer is scarred, ulcerated, and often appears as erythema ab igne clinically in adjacent skin.
(2) Photoprotection by constitutive and facultative pigmentation is reviewed with minimum erythema dose (MED) as the end point.
(3) The medical records and histopathologic slides of 13 patients with erythema elevatum diutinum were studied.
(4) The 5 ug application sites were biopsied at 24 h. Both enantiomers caused dose related erythema and increased blood flow at 6 and 24 h, which were not significantly different at either of the time points tested.
(5) Usually, there is leucoplakia with an erythema and an irregular keratosis or a punctuated one.
(6) When they occurred, these changes were usually accompanied by facial erythema lasting 2-5 min and were correlated with increases in plasma histamine level (P less than 0.001).
(7) Erythema gyratum repens is a cutaneous eruption with a unique morphology resembling a wood grain pattern.
(8) Three infants presented with acute scrotal swelling, erythema, and a tender irreducible firm mass within the scrotum.
(9) Ten children had 18 episodes of erysipelas-like erythema which proved to be specific for the disease.
(10) Only UV-induced erythema of the skin, adjuvant induced arthritis and the measurement of vascular permeability proved suitable for differentiation of the potency of the four topical agents.
(11) Painful palmar and plantar erythema is an uncommon systemic complication of chemotherapy and has been reported in association with methotrexate, cystosine arabinoside, doxorubicin, and 5-fluorouracil.
(12) These exanthemas must be separated from the postherpetic erythema exsudativum multiforme because of the identified virus.
(13) Escin was tested in the stasis edema, cotton-pellet-granuloma, and UV-erythema, i.e., in test models which seem specially suited to characterize the properties of this substance.
(14) The mast cell count in patients with erythema multiforme was numerically higher than in healthy controls, but the differences were not statistically significant.
(15) There was marked individual variation in subsequent erythema, but the patients with atopic dermatitis had less erythema at 15 min and 24 h than normal or psoriatic individuals.
(16) The wheal and erythema reaction caused by intracutaneous application of 5 mug histamine can be inhibited by applying fenoterol in doses from 100--400 mug in form of a metered aerosol on the skin 5 min before the injection of histamine.
(17) A patient of lepromatous leprosy with recurrent erythema nodosum leprosum developing acute renal failure proving fatal within 8 weeks is reported.
(18) In addition, intensity of macrophage-infiltration shared a similar time course change with those of erythema and edema.
(19) Itching appeared before erythema in 83% of subjects and within 5-8 min after instillation of the allergen.
(20) We report a case of refractory erythema multiforme associated with atypical epidermal autoantibodies.
Erythronium
Definition:
(n.) A name originally given (from its red acid) to the metal vanadium.