Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The formation or appearance of pustules.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The formation or breaking out of pustules.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.
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- noun The act of producing
pustules . - noun The state of being pustulated.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He advises internal medication with the building up of the general health, or suggests allowing the inflamed glands to empty themselves after pustulation.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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Devilliers, Blot, and Depaul all speak of congenital small-pox, the child born dead and showing evidences of the typical small-pox pustulation, with a history of the mother having been infected during pregnancy.
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Devilliers, Blot, and Depaul all speak of congenital small-pox, the child born dead and showing evidences of the typical small-pox pustulation, with a history of the mother having been infected during pregnancy.
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The _small-papular syphiloderm_ (_miliary papular syphiloderm_) usually shows itself in the third or fourth month of the disease, and consists of a more or less generalized eruption of disseminated or grouped, firm, rounded or acuminated pin-head to millet-seed-sized papules, with smooth or slightly scaly summits, and in some lesions showing pointed pustulation.
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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They begin as small maculo-papules, as papules, or as minute nodules in or on the skin, and gradually become small pea-sized, with a tendency to slight vesiculation or pustulation at the central part.
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 most common form is generalized pustular psoriasis (von Zumbusch type), an acute, severe form that is associated with fever, severe pruritus, toxicity, malaise, and painful pustulation.
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