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RHAGADES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rhagades mean?
• RHAGADES (noun)
The noun RHAGADES has 1 sense:
1. cracks or fissures in the skin (especially around the mouth or anus)
Familiarity information: RHAGADES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cracks or fissures in the skin (especially around the mouth or anus)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("rhagades" is a kind of...):
disease of the skin; skin disease; skin disorder (a disease affecting the skin)
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