ERYTHRODERMA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any skin disorder involving abnormal redness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("erythroderma" is a kind of...):

disease of the skin; skin disease; skin disorder (a disease affecting the skin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "erythroderma"):

erythema (abnormal redness of the skin resulting from dilation of blood vessels (as in sunburn or inflammation))

flare (reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation)

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