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ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erythema multiforme mean? 

ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME (noun)
  The noun ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME has 1 sense:

1. a red rash caused by hypersensitivity to a drug or disease or other allergenplay

  Familiarity information: ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A red rash caused by hypersensitivity to a drug or disease or other allergen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("erythema multiforme" is a kind of...):

erythema (abnormal redness of the skin resulting from dilation of blood vessels (as in sunburn or inflammation))


 Context examples 


A severe, sometimes life-threatening, form of erythema multiforme.

(Erythema Multiforme Major, NCI Thesaurus)

A variant of bullous erythema multiforme.

(Erythema Multiforme Major, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Self-limiting form of erythema multiforme.

(Erythema Multiforme Minor, NCI Thesaurus)



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