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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lupus \Lu"pus\, n. [L., a wolf. See Wolf.]
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(Med.) originally, a cutaneous disease with the appearance of the skin having been gnawed, and occurring under two distinct forms. Now used as a generic term for over ten distinguishable diseases having visible cutaneous symptoms.
Note: Lupus erythematosus is characterized by an eruption of red patches, which become incrusted, leaving superficial scars. Lupus vulgaris is marked by the development of nodules which often ulcerate deeply and produce great deformity. Prior to 1900 the latter was often confounded with cancer, and some varieties of cancer were included under Lupus. Systemic lupus erythematosus is an inflammatory connective tissue disease occurring mostly in women, characterized by skin rash, fever, and arthritic symptoms, and often accompanied by hemolytic anemia, inflammation of the pericardium, glomerular lesions, and hyperglobulinemia; the condition shows positive in the LE cell test.
--[Stedman]br/ [1913 Webster +PJC] (Astron.) The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., used of several diseases that cause ulcerations of the skin, from Medieval Latin lupus, from Latin lupus "wolf" (see wolf (n.)), apparently because it "devours" the affected part.
Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
WordNet
n. any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease
a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Centaurus
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Wikipedia
Lupus is a constellation located in the deep southern sky. Its name is Latin for wolf. Lupus was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations, although it was previously an asterism associated with the neighboring constellation Centaurus.
Lupus most commonly refers to the disease systemic lupus erythematosus.
Lupus may also refer to:
According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Lupus is located within the eastern quadrant of the sky, which is symbolized as the Azure Dragon of the East (東方青龍, Dōng Fāng Qīng Lóng).
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 豺狼座 (chái láng zuò), meaning "the ravenous wolf constellation".
Lupus is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Rheumatology. The journal's editor is Graham R.V. Hughes ( King's College London). It has been in publication since 1991 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
Lupus means "wolf" in Latin. It was a Latin cognomen and since then has also become a given name and family name.
Lupus may refer to:
- Wulfstan (died 956), Archbishop of York, who wrote under the pen name Lupus
- Lupus of Troyes (ca. 383 - ca. 478), French bishop and saint
- Lupus of Sens (d. 623), French bishop and saint
- Lupus I of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony and Aquitaine from about 670
- Lupo II of Gascony (died 778), third-attested historical duke of Gascony
- Lupo III Centule of Gascony (died c. 820), Duke of Gascony 818-819
- Lupus Servatus (c. 805 – c. 862), French abbot, theological writer and member of Charles the Bald's court
- Cornelius Lupus, Roman statesman
- Giovanni Luppis (1813-1875), Austrian Naval officer and the first to conceive of the self-propelled torpedo
- Peter Lupus (born 1932), American bodybuilder and actor
- Peter Lupus III, American actor, the son of Peter Lupus
- Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, known as Hugh Lupus
Usage examples of "lupus".
And in between there had been an appalling defeat, for which Caepio managed to blame Marius rather than Lupus.
For some reason, she recalled that in the anatomical museum she had seen a model of the face of a man who had suffered from lupus: a face scarred by bluish furrows and pimples, with irregular, corroded lips, eyebrows in small clumps, and red eyelids without eyelashes.
Because with Ingild dead, the Jann no longer a factor, and his own power-play circumvented, the Lupus Cluster faced the threat of peace for the first time in generations.
Various skin diseases are regarded as local expressions of, or as being materially modified by, the scrofulous diathesis, as eczema, impetigo, and lupus.
The troops were hopelessly inexperienced, he said, they would need the full hundred days of training before they could cope with any sort of battle, a lot of the equipment was substandard, Lupus had better settle down and accept things for what they were instead of dwelling endlessly upon Pompey Strabo and the stolen veteran legions.
The Lupus had followed down their Triumph-class aerodyne, the Wulfstag, waiting until the massive troop carrier ground to a halt using Highlake Basin as a modified landing field.
In worst cases, that can lead to organ failure, but it can also lead to other autoimmune diseases such as lupus, inflammatory bowel syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Cindy, nee Cynara, called Cinnamon, died many years later of a disease we now know to be lupus.
But there is no use in placing temptation before any, and Porus and Lupus will have told how the Roman ladies flung their bracelets to you.
Cokebottle and the two other Gnawers lifted their heads, then pulled themselves up to sit in lupus form, staring toward the open door, toward the night outside.
Lupus a purveyor had bought and ingrossed up all the day before, and so I was deceived.
He could jump off this platform and elude Lupus yet again, leading him another merry chase through the station, or he could crash the gate and find a way to get Marcus back through.
Our ancestors apparently domesticated them, breeding out the fierceness, breeding in companionability, eventually turning the Ice Age Canis lupus pallipes into Canis familiaris, the modern pooch with its 300 sundry breeds.
Sprague money would keep her out of the gas chamber, she'd get eaten alive at Atascadero or a women's prison until the lupus got her, Martha would be ravaged, and Emmett and Madeleine would still have each other--withholding/obstruction beefs against them would be too second-hand to prosecute on.
You started telling Carl and me about your early work on cures for sickle cell and Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and lupus.