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Definition of Enanthem
1. Noun. Eruption on a mucous membrane (as the inside of the mouth) occurring as a symptom of a disease.
Definition of Enanthem
1. Noun. (pathology) A lesion of the mucous membrane (especially of the mouth) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Enanthem
1. Enanthema A mucous membrane eruption, especially one occurring in connection with one of the exanthemas. Origin: G. En, in, + anthema, bloom, eruption, fr. Antheo, to bloom (05 Mar 2000)
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Literary usage of Enanthem
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Pediatric Society by American Pediatric Society (1902)
"THE USE OF THE TERM "enanthem." BY F. FORCHHEIMER, MD Professor of the Theory
and Practice of Medicine, Medical College of Ohio, Medical Department of the ..."
2. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1908)
"One does not often see the vesicular stage of the enanthem as the eruption seems
to develop more quickly in the mouth than on the skin. ..."
3. Epidemiology and public health: a text and reference book for physicians by Victor Clarence Vaughan (1922)
"It is a secondary infection to measles, while the catarrh is a part if the primary
disease.'' The enanthem.—In 1896 Koplik, of New York, described an ..."
4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1898)
"The enanthem is very short lived, fading away within the first twenty-four hours.
... The difference between this enanthem and those of scarlet ..."
5. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"Moreover, there is never the purulent sticky discharge so commonly seen in measles.
enanthem The appearance of the throat has been a subject of debate for ..."
6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1899)
"Forch- heimer considers that the character of the eruption on the mucous membrane
of the mouth, called by him the enanthem, is typically distinctive in the ..."
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