LUPUS VULGARIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tuberculosis of the skin; appears first on the face and heals slowly leaving deep scars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("lupus vulgaris" is a kind of...):

T.B.; TB; tuberculosis (infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages))

lupus (any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease)

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