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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Hyperemia of the skin of the nose, with hypertrophy of its connective tissue and more or less inflammation of its glands, forming a well-developed grade of acne rosacea: restricted by some to cases presenting extraordinary enlargement, sometimes regarded as distinct from acne rosacea.

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  • noun medicine The condition of having a large, bulbous, ruddy nose caused by granulomatous infiltration, commonly due to untreated rosacea.

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  • noun enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin; often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol

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Examples

  • Morgan had an inherited skin condition called rhinophyma, which is excess growth of sebaceous tissue.

    Morgan: American Financier 1999

  • A-- actually, a virulent form of adolescent acne is often a precursor to this sk -- skin condition, called rhinophyma, that he had later in his life.

    Morgan: American Financier 1999

  • It can generate mild flushing, persistent redness, or the more severe papular kind of acne rosacea with bumpy pimples and sometimes thickening of the skin rhinophyma.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • It can generate mild flushing, persistent redness, or the more severe papular kind of acne rosacea with bumpy pimples and sometimes thickening of the skin rhinophyma.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • It can generate mild flushing, persistent redness, or the more severe papular kind of acne rosacea with bumpy pimples and sometimes thickening of the skin rhinophyma.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • The poor thing seems to have rhinophyma, which has caused his poor little nose to turn bright red, even seeming to glow!

    December 14th, 2007 danhoyt 2007

  • Ohmann-Dumesnil 10.145 reports a case of rhinophyma in a man of seventy-two, an alcoholic, who was originally affected with acne rosacea, on whom he performed a most successful operation for restoration.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Ohmann-Dumesnil reports a case of rhinophyma in a man of seventy-two, an alcoholic, who was originally affected with acne rosacea, on whom he performed a most successful operation for restoration.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • -- Case of rhinophyma before and after operation (Ohmann-Dumesnil).

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • In exceptional instances, still further hypertrophy of the bloodvessels ensues, the glands are enlarged, and a variable degree of connective-tissue new growth is added; this latter is usually slight, but may be excessive, the nose presenting an enlarged and lobulated appearance (_rhinophyma_).

    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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  • the red nose of a drunk, also known as a grog blossom

    April 19, 2008