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scarlatina
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, from Modern Latin scarlatina (Sydenham, 1676), from Italian scarlattina (Lancelotti, 1527), fem. of scarlattino (adj.), diminutive of scarlatto "scarlet" (see scarlet ). It is a synonym for scarlet fever , not a milder form of it. Related: Scarlattinal ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scarlatina \Scar`la*ti"na\, n. [NL.: cf. F. scarlatine. See Scarlet .] (Med.) Scarlet fever. -- Scar`la*ti"nal , a. -- Scar*lat"i*nous (# or #), a.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) scarlet fever
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash [syn: scarlet fever ]
Usage examples of scarlatina.
Hence, the utmost care should be taken against exposure of a patient recovering from scarlatina, and the same caution should be exercised during convalescence from measles, erysipelas, and rheumatism.
The dermal manifestations, such as urticaria and eruptions resembling the exanthem of scarlatina, are too well known to need mention here.
It is an occasional feature In scarlatina, serious cases of bilious fever, and in cutaneous affections of every description.
Occasionally it is a result of febrile diseases, as scarlatina, typhoid fever, etc.
Horace talked many a summer night into dawn over the problems which nowadays succeed measles and scarlatina as a form of youthful complaint.
Ruth received a letter which contained the alarming news that one of the younger children was ill with scarlatina, and that she would be obliged to postpone her return home for at least a few weeks.
If it is only scarlatina he will be cured by means of herbs and simples and turned into a useful member of society as a husbandman, weaver, smith, neatherd, goatherd, shepherd, bootlegger or judge.
Long before the Crossings, such plagues as varicella, diphtheria, influenza, rubella, epidemic roseola, morbilli, scarlatina, variola, typhoid, typhus, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, hepatitis, cytomegalovirus herpes, and gonococcal were eliminated by vaccination .