Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An irritable condition of the skin in which a raised line follows the drawing of a hard-pointed instrument across it.
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Examples
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Miss Russell, who lives in New York, said she did not even realise she had dermatographia until a doctor diagnosed the condition five years ago, but she had already become interested in using skin as art.
Ariana Page Russell: Artist Has Turned Her Body Into A Canvas | Impact Lab 2009
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She uses a blunt knitting needle to trace her art works and the condition, dermatographia, means her skin swells up in five minutes.
Ariana Page Russell: Artist Has Turned Her Body Into A Canvas | Impact Lab 2009
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Miss Russell, who lives in New York, said she did not even realise she had dermatographia until a doctor diagnosed the condition five years ago, but she had already become interested in using skin as art.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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I have dermatographia, a condition in which one’s immune system releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear lasting about thirty minutes when the hypersensitive skin’s surface is lightly scratched.
Ariana Page Russell 2010
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