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A skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance
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rosacea
Word definitions for rosacea in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance [syn: acne rosacea ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1876, short for acne rosacea (1833), from fem. of Latin rosaceus "rose-colored" (see rose (n.1)).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rosacea is a long term skin condition characterized by facial redness , small and superficial dilated blood vessels on facial skin, papules , pustules , and swelling . Rosacea typically begins as redness on the central face across the cheeks, nose, or forehead, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) A chronic condition characterized by redness of the face.
Usage examples of rosacea.
He was red-cheeked and his nose was a swollen network of broken veins, probably from rosacea, but it could also have been drink.
The tiny broken veins in his big nose faded into the wide rosacea blotches that marred his otherwise pasty face.
For in the case of the five pericarps this number is a quality immanent in the apple, which it shares with the whole species of Rosaceae.
Equip a man with an enormous nose, disfigured perhaps with acne rosacea.
Closely related to the Alchemillas, belonging to the same subdivision, Sanguisorbidae, of the order Rosaceae and having similar medicinal properties to Alchemilla vulgaris, are the Burnets, Sanguisorba officinalis and Poterium sanguisorba.