Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contagious skin disease, running a chronic course, due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, Microsporon minutissimum.
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Examples
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I cause erythrasma, mostly on the parts of your skin that are folded.
Corynebacterium minutissimum Emma Lurie 2007
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I cause erythrasma, mostly on the parts of your skin that are folded.
Archive 2007-02-01 Emma Lurie 2007
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It is believed that such cases are variously due to the trichophyton of ringworm, to the microsporon furfur of tinea versicolor, to the microsporon minutissimus of erythrasma, and to other parasites.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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(1822-64, eczema marginatum, erythrasma caused by fungus, and herpes zoster) and his successor, Georg Lewin (1807-78) worked along the same lines as Hebra (parasitical and constitutional skin diseases, erythema induratum).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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