breakfast, lunch and dinner

phrase

A group of three bedbug bites appearing together.

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alternative breakfast, lunch, and dinner

  1. informaldermatologyA group of three bedbug bites appearing together.

    It is common for bedbugs to inflict a series of bites in a row ("breakfast, lunch, and dinner").

    2011, William D. James, Dirk Elston, Timothy Berger, Andrew's Diseases of the Skin E-Book: Clinical Dermatology, page 435
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    The typical clinical finding is several erythematous papules or urticarial lesions grouped together. Often three appear in a row (breakfast, lunch and dinner), but of course the bedbug does not keep count and both solitary bites and many lesions are common.

    2012, Otto Braun-Falco, Gerd Plewig, Helmut Heinrich Wolff, Walter H.C. Burgdorf, Dermatology, second edition, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 364
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