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ERYTHRODERMA
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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)