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hidradenitis
n. (context medicine English) inflammation of the sweat glands
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Hidradenitis
Hidradenitis is any disease in which the histologic abnormality is primarily an inflammatory infiltrate around the eccrine glands. This group includes neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis and recurrent palmoplantar hidradenitis.
It can also be defined more generally as an inflammation of sweat glands.
Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic cutaneous condition originally thought to be primarily characterized by suppurative inflammation of the apocrine sweat glands. However, recent evidence supports that the primary event is follicular hyperkeratosis and obstruction.