Definition of "exanthema" []

• A skin eruption accompanying certain infectious diseases. (noun)
• A disease, such as measles or scarlet fever, accompanied by a skin eruption. (noun)

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• "Several times we observed a faint icteric coloring and in some cases the appearance on neck and breast of an exanthema resembling measles."
• "The post doctoral fellow will conduct a project exploring the pathophysiology of drug allergies (exanthema, toxic epidermal necrolysis …)."
• "Viruses that MDCK cells are susceptible to include vesicular stomatitis (Indiana strain), vaccinia, coxsackievirus B5, reovirus 2 and 3, adenovirus 4 and 5, vesicular exanthema of swine, and infectious canine hepatitis."