| erysipelas migrans | A widely spreading form involving the entire face or body surface. Synonym: ambulant erysipelas, wandering erysipelas. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| erythema chronicum migrans | The classic initial rash of Lyme disease. In the early phase of the illness, within hours to weeks of the tick bite, the local skin develops an expanding ring of unraised redness. There may be an outer ring of brighter redness and a central area of clearing. For more information, see LYME DISEASE. (12 Dec 1998) |
| erythema migrans | <clinical sign> A benign condition where there is a map-like appearance to the tongue resulting from irregular denuded patches in the surface (loss of tongue papillae). Likely secondary to local irritation from hot or spicy foods, alcohol or tobacco. There are no significant complications. (27 Sep 1997) |
| erythema nodosum migrans | subacute migratory panniculitis |
| keratitis linearis migrans | A deep, linear corneal opacity stretching from limbus to limbus; associated with congenital syphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| larva migrans | Infections caused by nematode larvae which never develop into the adult stage and migrate through various body tissues. They commonly infect the skin, eyes, and viscera in man. Ancylostoma brasiliensis causes cutaneous larva migrans. Toxocara causes visceral larva migrans. (12 Dec 1998) |
| larva migrans, visceral | A condition produced in man by the prolonged migration of animal nematode larvae in extraintestinal tissues other than skin; characterised by persistent hypereosinophilia, hepatomegaly, and frequently pneumonitis, commonly caused by toxocara canis and toxocara cati. (12 Dec 1998) |