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Meaning of PAPULE

Pronunciation:  'papyool

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a small inflamed elevation of skin that is nonsuppurative (as in chicken pox)
 
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 See Also: hickey, pimple

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pap"ule\, n.; pl. {Papules}.
Same as {Papula}.
 
Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: A papule is a solid area of skin that is palpable above the surrounding skin and less than 1 cm in diameter.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: abscess, aposteme, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, cold sore, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gumboil, hemorrhoids, kibe, lesion, papula, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, pustule, rising, scab, soft chancre, sore, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound
 

 

 

 

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