Medical Definition of Lyell's disease
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A disease of infants due to group 2 phage type 17 staphylococci that produce an epidermolytic exotoxin. Superficial fine vesicles and bullae form and rupture easily, resulting in loss of large sheets of epidermis.
(12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lyell's Disease
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