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Definition of Eczema

1. Noun. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages.

Definition of Eczema

1. n. An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Definition of Eczema

1. Noun. An acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly. It is noncontagious. ¹

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Definition of Eczema

1. a skin disease [n -S]

Medical Definition of Eczema

1. A pruritic papulovesicular dermatitis occurring as a reaction to many endogenous and exogenous agents. It is characterised in the acute stage by erythema, oedema associated with a serous exudate between the cells of the epidermis (spongiosis) and an inflammatory infiltrate in the dermis, oosing and vesiculation and crusting and scaling and in the more chronic stages by lichenification or thickening or both, signs of excoriations and hyperpigmentation or hypopigmentation or both. Atopic dermatitis is the most common type of dermatitis. Synonym: eczematous dermatitis. Origin: Gr. Ekzein = to boil out This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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