EXANTHEMA (exanthemata)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: exanthemata   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does exanthema mean? 

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

1. eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXANTHEMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

exanthem; exanthema; skin eruption

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

eruption (symptom consisting of a breaking out and becoming visible)

 Context examples 

Human herpesvirus 7 is found in humans and causes exanthema subitum in infants.

(Human Herpesvirus 7, NCI Thesaurus)

A human herpesvirus that has been found in certain lymphoproliferative disorders, replicates in a number of different types of leukocytes, and is associated with the childhood disease roseola (exanthema subitum).

(Human Herpesvirus 6, NCI Thesaurus)