ERYTHRODERMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erythroderma mean? 

• ERYTHRODERMA (noun)
  The noun ERYTHRODERMA has 1 sense:

1. any skin disorder involving abnormal redness

  Familiarity information: ERYTHRODERMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERYTHRODERMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any skin disorder involving abnormal redness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("erythroderma" is a kind of...):

disease of the skin; skin disease; skin disorder (a disease affecting the skin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "erythroderma"):

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

flare (reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation)

 Context examples 

Mutation of the gene is associated with non-bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma.

(ALOX12B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation of the gene is associated with bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, ichthyosis hystrix Curth-Macklin type, palmoplantar keratoderma non-epidermolytic, ichthyosis annular epidermolytic and palmoplantar keratoderma striate type 3.

(KRT1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of alopecia, erythroderma, desquamation, lymphadenopathy, and chronic diarrhea.

(Omenn Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)