LUPUS VULGARIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lupus vulgaris mean? 

• LUPUS VULGARIS (noun)
  The noun LUPUS VULGARIS has 1 sense:

1. tuberculosis of the skin; appears first on the face and heals slowly leaving deep scars

  Familiarity information: LUPUS VULGARIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUPUS VULGARIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tuberculosis of the skin; appears first on the face and heals slowly leaving deep scars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("lupus vulgaris" is a kind of...):

T.B.; TB; tuberculosis (infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages))

lupus (any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease)