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RHAGADES

\ɹˈaɡe͡ɪdz], \ɹˈaɡe‍ɪdz], \ɹ_ˈa_ɡ_eɪ_d_z]\

Definitions of RHAGADES

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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Chaps, cracks or fissures in the skin; linear excoriations, rhacomata.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

rag'a-d[=e]z, n.pl. fissures of the skin. [Gr. rhagas (pl. rhagades), a crack.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

Ruptures, chaps, or narrow and long ulcers, which form near the origin of mucous membranes, especially around the anus, and which are generally owing to the syphilitic virus.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

[Greek] Fissures; especially, fissures in the skin.

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
By Alexander Duane

Painful fissures in the skin.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

Fissures in the skin, occurring often in the vicinity of the mouth or anus and also on the hands or feet. [Gr.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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