| pneumonia interlobularis purulenta | Pneumonia in which the lobules of the lung are separated by collections of purulent exudate. Synonym: pneumonia dissecans. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| myositis purulenta tropica | A disease observed in Samoa and in tropical Africa, marked by pains in the extremities, fever of a remittent or intermittent type, and abscesses in the muscles in various parts of the body (may result in death from sepsis); causative organisms are Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes, but usually the disease is associated with parasitic infections. Synonym: bungpagga, lambo lambo, tropical myositis, tropical pyomyositis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lochia purulenta | The last discharge no longer tinged with blood. Synonym: lochia purulenta. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Garre's osteomyelitis | Chronic osteomyelitis with proliferative periostitis. A focal gross thickening of the periosteum with peripheral reactive bone formation resulting from mild infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| parapsoriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta | pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta |
| chronic diffuse sclerosing osteomyelitis | A proliferative reaction of bone to a low-grade infection of the jaws; most often seen in middle-aged or older black women as extensive, often bilateral radio-opacities of the mandible and maxilla. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chronic focal sclerosing osteomyelitis | A reaction of bone to a mild bacterial infection, often the result of a carious tooth, in persons with a high degree of tissue resistance; results in a localised radio-opacity. Synonym: focal condensing osteitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| polyarthritis rheumatica acuta | An obsolete term for polyarthritis associated with rheumatic fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pustulosis vacciniformis acuta | A febrile condition caused by cutaneous dissemination of herpesvirus type 1, occurring most commonly in children, consisting of a widespread eruption of vesicles rapidly becoming umbilicated pustules; clinically indistinguishable from a generalised vaccinia. The two may be distinguished by electron microscopy or demonstration of inclusion bodies in smears, which are intranuclear in eczema herpeticum and intracytoplasmic in eczema vaccinatum. Synonym: pustulosis vacciniformis acuta. (05 Mar 2000) |
| osteomyelitis | <pathology> Inflammation of bone caused by a pyogenic organism. It may remain localised or may spread through the bone to involve the marrow, cortex, cancellous tissue and periosteum. Origin: Gr. Myelos = marrow (18 Nov 1997) |
| urticaria acuta | Urticaria accompanied by slight constitutional symptoms. Synonym: acute urticaria, urticaria acuta, urticaria febrilis. (05 Mar 2000) |