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Reddish rash
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roseola
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Wikipedia
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Roseola is a disease of children, generally under two years old. Although it has been known to occur in eighteen-year-olds, whose manifestations are usually limited to a transient rash (" exanthem ") that occurs following a fever of about three days' duration. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pathology English) Any rosy rash that occurs with various fevers, especially that occurring with a mild disease of early infancy that resembles measles. 2 (context disease English) German measles.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any red eruption of the skin [syn: rash , efflorescence , skin rash ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roseola \Ro*se"o*la\, n. [NL., dim. of L. rosa a rose.] (med.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized ...
Usage examples of roseola.
A general practitioner for the first time in his career, David suddenly found himself treating asthma, roseola, croup, enlarged prostate, insomnia, and peptic ulcers.
She shivered, recalling the time Avery had dragged them all camping and Elizabetta had come down with roseola in the middle of nowhere.
Frannie had driven them all home just in time to find out Rebecca had developed roseola and a fever of 106 degrees, which was worth a trip to the emergency room.
Kurtz let his eyes descend again, slowly, looking for the least patch of red, the tiniest roseola blush.
Dauboeuf, Garraway, Hemming, Skinner, and Cobner mention roseola and scarlatiniform erythema after minute doses of quinin.
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 .