rhinoscleroma

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noun

A rare skin disease with very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, especially the lips, palate, and throat.

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Meanings

nounrhinoscleroma (plural rhinoscleromas or rhinoscleromata)

plural rhinoscleromas · plural rhinoscleromata

  1. medicineA rare skin disease with very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, especially the lips, palate, and throat.

    The diagnosis of rhinoscleroma is often rendered very difficult, owing to the great resemblance between it and lupus […]

    1909, John Vietch Shoemaker, A practical treatise on diseases of the skin

Origin

From rhino- + scleroma.

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