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Definition of Molluscum
1. Noun. Any skin disease characterized by soft pulpy nodules.
Specialized synonyms: Molluscum Contagiosum
Definition of Molluscum
1. n. A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of various forms, filled with a thick matter; -- so called from the resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals.
Definition of Molluscum
1. Noun. (medicine) Any of various skin diseases marked by soft, pulpy nodules or tumors ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Molluscum
1. a skin disease [n -CA]
Medical Definition of Molluscum
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Molluscum
Literary usage of Molluscum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1891)
"They were roundish or oval in shape, clear or colloid and almost structureless,
and much resembled the " molluscum bodies " of molluscum contagiosum. ..."
2. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of advanced students and by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1910)
"They may be either whitish, almost skin colored or pinkish, and often look not
unlike drops of wax or small Fig. 140.—molluscum ..."
3. Practical treatise on diseases of the skin by John Vietch Shoemaker (1897)
"Diagnosis,—The disease is usually easily recognized, and is per- aps liable to
be mistaken only for molluscum fibrosum. In mollus- um epitheliale the ..."
4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"Fibroma molluscum gravidarum. A photograph taken eight weeks ... Summing up the
facts, we can draw the conclusion that fibroma molluscum gravidarum is one ..."
5. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"molluscum contagiosum (molluscum sebaceum) is a disease of the sebaceous
glands (according to some authors, of the rete muco- sum) characterized by the ..."
6. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and by James Nevins Hyde (1893)
"molluscum Epitheliale, a disease first recognized by Bateman, ... under the title
molluscum CONTAGIOSUM, is to be distinguished from another, ..."
7. Manual of diseases of the skin by Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave, Henri Édouard Schedel (1852)
"The disease of which we are now about to speak has been called molluscum, ...
molluscum consists in the presence of numerous small tubercles, ..."
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