eruption

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The patient may say that the eruption was the first symptom he observed.

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  1. noun The act or process of erupting.
  2. noun An instance of erupting.
  3. noun A sudden, often violent outburst.

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  • If the eruption is around the nostrils and lips, the glands between the jaws (submaxillary) form abscesses as in a case of strangles; if the eruption is in a pair of greasy heels abscesses may form in the fold of the groin (inguinal). —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • If the animal is exposed to cold, or worked so as to engorge the lungs with blood at the termination of the specific fever, just when the eruption is about to localize, it may be determined to the lungs. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Variola may be confounded with bronchitis or pneumonia if complicated with these troubles and the eruption is absent from the exterior, but it is of little moment, as the treatment for both is much the same. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • In variola the eruption is a temporary one; the nodes and pustules are followed by shallow ulcers and rapid cicatrization unless continued in the vagina or on the penis by the rubbing of the walls and filth which accumulates; there are apt to be pustules at other parts of the body. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • The mass had covered an area of nearly six miles, and is estimated as being equal to one and one-eighth cubic miles of solid matter which, as Moses expressed it, was blown to bits If this had been all, it would have been enough to claim the attention and excite the wonder of the intelligent world--but this was not nearly all, as we shall see, for saddest of all the incidents connected with the eruption is the fact that upwards of thirty-six thousand human beings lost their lives. —  Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
 

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  1. = French éruption = Spanish erupcion = Portuguese erupção = Italian eruzione, from Latin eruptio(n-), a breaking out, from erumpere, past participle eruptus, break out: see erupt.
 

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