toxidermia

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toxidermia (countable and uncountable, plural toxidermias)

  1. (pathology) The presence of skin lesions as a result of the action of toxins or allergens
    • 2015 November 3, “Circulating Human Eosinophils Share a Similar Transcriptional Profile in Asthma and Other Hypereosinophilic Disorders”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Subjects with peripheral hypereosinophilia defined as in [13 ] related to other diseases were also recruited, including subjects with dermatologic disease (n = 3, i.e prurigo, bullous pemphigoid and drug toxidermia), parasitosis (n = 3, i.e giardiasis, ascaridiosis and scabies) and pulmonary aspergillosis (n = 5, with 2 of them also suffering from asthma associated to bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.)