(superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
(superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
(superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
(v. t.) To prepare with haste.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(2) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
(3) --The frequency of common clinical manifestations (eg, headache, fever, and rash) and laboratory findings (eg, leukocyte and platelet counts and serum chemistry abnormalities) of patients with infectious diseases was tabulated.
(4) The cause of death was thought to be postoperative Graft Versus Host Disease with skin rash and pancytopenia.
(5) Adverse reactions associated with ticlopidine included neutropenia (severe in one patient) with no clinical complications, diarrhea, or rash.
(6) The presence of an erythematous skin rash and hemorrhagic complications in acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) suggest that the vasculature may be involved in the immunopathologic process.
(7) Hypersensitivity reactions, most commonly skin rashes or pruritus, affect about 1% of patients.
(8) The adverse effects were negligible--one patient had light urticarial rash and pruritus.
(9) In vitro invasion and in vivo metastasis assays were performed with a panel of MCF-7 cells transfected with isogenic constructs of mutated rasH genes.
(10) We describe a man who presented with Reiter's syndrome and a new prominent malar rash.
(11) A 71-year-old female showed a rash over the S2-4 dermatomes on the right side.
(12) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
(13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(14) Extracardiac adverse effects of quinidine include potentially intolerable gastrointestinal effects and hypersensitivity reactions such as fever, rash, blood dyscrasias and hepatitis.
(15) The protective effects of FK565 against systemic infections with herpes simplex virus (HSV) and murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), respiratory tract infection with influenza virus and zosteriform rash with HSV investigated in mice.
(16) These included petechial rash, hypertrichosis, acute renal failure, fluid retention and cardiac failure.
(17) These results suggest a frequent infection with HHV-6 only a few weeks after BMT and a close association between the infection with the virus and the development of skin rashes.
(18) Of these five, one came from a 'normal' control who had a positive anti-nuclear antibody (ANA), facial rash and diabetes, two were from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and two were from patients with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD).
(19) The drug was withdrawn in 6 patients--lack of response in one, thrombocytopenia in one, urticaria in one, rash in one, and granulocytopenia in 2.
(20) Supplementation with zinc sulfate 220 mg per day via nasogastric tube resulted in disappearance of the rash with return of serum zinc to normal levels.
Roseola
Definition:
(n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash.
Example Sentences:
(1) To confirm the causal nature of human herpes virus type 6 (HHV-6) for exanthema subitum we could demonstrate eight seroconversions testing sera from 14 patients with roseola infantum.
(2) Eleven cases of primary HHV6 infection associated with roseola infantum in babies, 1 of whom suffered from gastroenteritis as well as pyrexia and rash, are reported.
(3) The data suggest that there are clinical syndromes in addition to roseola infantum associated with the presence of IgM anti-HHV6, in which serological screening for evidence of acute HHV6 infection may be useful.
(4) This comparison has revealed that in typhoid fever in elderly and senile patients roseola typhosa is more rare, while the phenomenon of eruption is more frequent than in young patients.
(5) Several recent developments have sparked a renewed interest in this group of diseases, including the identification of parvovirus B19 and human herpesvirus 6 as the causative agents of erythema infectiosum and roseola infantum.
(6) We report three homosexual men who developed malaise, fever and a roseola-like exanthema which disappeared over 2 weeks.
(7) We recommend the addition of roseola to the differential diagnosis of rashes that occur in pregnancy.
(8) The 271 children had 318 physician diagnosed illnesses: 105 acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI), 121 diarrhoeas, 36 measles, 50 upper respiratory infections (URTI), 5 roseola infantums and one milaria rubria.
(9) Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) causes exanthem subitum (ES, roseola infantum), a childhood disease characterized by high fever and skin rash.
(10) The remaining four infants had an illness compatible with roseola infantum, although this diagnosis had not been made clinically.
(11) As to the present knowledge the critical rose rash of infants (exanthema subitum, roseola infantum) means to be an exanthematous infectious disease that, occurring preferably in elder babes and younger infants (1st--3rd year of life), is caused by the newly detected herpesvirus (now the sixth one) pathogenic for man.
(12) The final clinical diagnoses included acute otitis media, pneumonia, acute gastroenteritis, roseola, and cellulitis of the leg.
(13) The disease ran an atypical course; with early jaundice syndrome, severe enterorrhagia and late appearance of roseola.
(14) Most of the patients had some clinical signs of secondary syphilis, such as roseola, loss of hair, or lymphadenopathy, and their serological reactions for lues were strongly positive.
(15) A survey is given on the history, characteristic symptoms and recent data of the etiology of exanthem subitum (Zahorsky's disease, sixth disease, roseola infantum).
(16) In contrast to the results of previous reports, human herpesvirus 6, the causative agent of roseola infantum, could not be isolated from the saliva specimens, raising questions regarding oral transmission of human herpesvirus 6 and human herpesvirus 7 to young children.
(17) The other two had received antibiotics when febrile, and the subsequent appearance of the roseola rash had raised the possibility of antibiotic allergy.
(18) Seven of the children had rashes, and in four, the illness suggested roseola infantum.
(19) Twenty-five patients with clinical exanthema subitum (roseola infantum) were enrolled into a study, where acute-phase and convalescent sera were examined for antibodies to human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), several other viruses, and other microbes.
(20) The classic presentation of roseola is characterized by high temperatures (103-105 degrees F) that last 3-5 days and resolve by crisis followed by the appearance of a morbilliform rash that lasts a few hours to a few days.