Definition of Macules

1. Noun. (plural of macule) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Macules

1. macule [v] - See also: macule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Macules

macular leprosy
macular retinopathy
macular syphilid
maculas
maculate
maculated
maculates
maculating
maculation
maculations
maculatory
maculature
macule
maculed
maculele
macules (current term)
maculiferous
maculing
maculocerebral
maculoerythematous
maculomancy
maculopapular
maculopapule
maculopathies
maculopathy
maculose
macumba
macumbas
macushla
mad

Literary usage of Macules

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

1. Diphtheria by William Perry Northrup, Theodor von Jürgensen, Alfred Stengel (1902)
"In the diffuse form the skin is redder and the macules, which are surrounded as by a halo, are united to neighboring macules by streaks and ..."

2. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1907)
"... ecthyma of infants may present in various stages, and the lesions produced may include congestive macules and papules undergoing vesiculation and ..."

3. Diseases of the skin: Their Symptomatology, Etiology and Diagnosis, with by Henry M. Dearborn (1903)
"macules (spots, stains, maculae) are changes of color of the skin with little or no ... macules may be due to hyperaemia, to extravasations of blood, ..."

4. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of advanced students and by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1910)
"macules are variously sized, shaped, and tinted spots and dis- colorations, or circumscribed alterations in the color of the skin, without, as a rule, ..."

5. Diseases of the Skin: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners by J. M. H. MacLeod (1921)
"NON-VASCULAR NAEVI (i) PLANE PIGMENTED macules AND PATCHES (NAEVUS ... Pigmented macules or patches of congenital origin are common. ..."

6. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1912)
"macules may be inflammatory as in the rose spots of enteric fever, or noninflammatory as in purpura ; congenital as in moles, or acquired as in the ..."

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