toxidermia

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word toxidermia. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word toxidermia, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say toxidermia in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word toxidermia you have here. The definition of the word toxidermia will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition oftoxidermia, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Noun

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, →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.)