RUPIA
\ɹˈuːpiə], \ɹˈuːpiə], \ɹ_ˈuː_p_i__ə]\
Definitions of RUPIA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 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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An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.
By Oddity Software
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An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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r[=oo]'pi-a, n. a severe form of skin disease, with flattish distinct bullæ or blebs, containing a serous, purulent, or sanious fluid, becoming thick scabs. [Gr. hrypos, filth.]
By Thomas Davidson
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An eruption of large flattish blebs, which contain a fluid -at first serous, afterwards puriform, and often bloody, which rapidly concretes into crusts, at the base of which are ulcers of variable depths. It requires the use of tonics internally, and of stimulating ointments externally. Rupia Escharotica, known in Ireland under the names-white blisters, eating hive and burnt holes. An affection, which bears a close similarity to pemphigus, particularly in the absence of a thick rugous crust, whilst in its chief feature, that of ulceration, it evidently belongs to Rupia.
By Robley Dunglison
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[Greek] A condition, occurring especially in tertiary syphilis, characterized by the development of bullae which dry up, leaving conical adherent crusts seated upon deep, spreading ulcers. R. escharotica, dermatitis gangraenosa. Hence, Rupial, of or due to r.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland