PORRIGO LARVALIS
\pˈɒɹɪɡˌə͡ʊ lɑːvˈɑːliz], \pˈɒɹɪɡˌəʊ lɑːvˈɑːliz], \p_ˈɒ_ɹ_ɪ_ɡ_ˌəʊ l_ɑː_v_ˈɑː_l_i_z]\
Definitions of PORRIGO LARVALIS
Sort: Oldest first
-
P. lupinosa.
-
This is, almost exclusively, a disease of infancy. It commonly appears first on the forehead and cheeks, in an eruption of numerous, minute, whitish achores on a red surface. These break and discharge a viscid fluid, which becomes incrusted in thin, yellowish, or greenish scabs. The patches spread, until the whole face becomes, as it were, enveloped in a mask; hence the epithet Iarvalis. The disease is rather a variety of Eczema. Sometimes the eruption appears on the neck and breast; and, occasionally, on the extremities. In general, the health of the child does not suffer, but the eruption is always attended with much itching and irritation. The treatment consists in mild, tepid ablution, and the application of gently stimulating ointments, as the oxydum zinci. The bowels must be kept in a soluble state by small doses of calomel, or by rhubarb and magnesia.
By Robley Dunglison
Word of the day
Platidiam
- An inorganic water-soluble platinum complex. After undergoing hydrolysis, it reacts DNA produce both intra interstrand crosslinks. These crosslinks appear to impair replication and transcription of DNA. The cytotoxicity cisplatin correlates with cellular arrest in G2 phase cell cycle.