Definition of Scleredema

1. Noun. A skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face.

Generic synonyms: Dropsy, Edema, Hydrops, Oedema

Medical Definition of Scleredema

1. Hard nonpitting oedema of the skin of the dorsal aspect of the upper body and extremities, giving a waxy appearance and no sharp demarcation; seen in diabetics and in scleredema adultorum. Origin: scler-+ G. Oidema, a swelling (oedema) (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scleredema

scleral resection
scleral rigidity
scleral ring
scleral roll
scleral spur
scleral staphyloma
scleral sulcus
scleral veins
scleralization
scleralizations
scleras
sclere
sclerectasia
sclerectomy
scleredema (current term)
scleredema adultorum
scleregenous
sclereid
sclereids
sclerema
sclerema adiposum
sclerema neonatorum
scleremas
sclerencephaly
sclerenchymas
sclerenchymatous
sclerenchyme
scleres

Literary usage of Scleredema

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice of pediatrics by Charles Gilmore Kerley (1918)
"Prognosis.—The disease is usually, but not invariably, fatal. Diagnosis.—Scleroderma and scleredema, the only conditions resembling ..."

2. Reference handbook of the diseases of children for students and physicians by Ferdinand Frühwald, Thompson Seiser Westcott (1906)
"scleredema Neonatorum.—The name itself indicates the essential feature of the ... scleredema usually begins during the very first days of life and first ..."

3. The Diseases of Children by Henry Enos Tuley (1913)
"In scleredema there is a subnormal temperature, with dry, cold skin. The parts first affected are usually the calves of the legs, the thighs, abdominal wall ..."

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