| Milian's erythema | An obsolete term for a nontoxic eruption that simulates measles or a toxic erythema, occurring usually on the ninth day of a course of medication; first described as a reaction to arsenical treatment of syphilis. Synonym: Milian's disease, Milian's erythema. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Milian, Gaston | <person> French dermatologist, 1871-1945. See: Milian's disease, Milian's erythema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliaria | <medicine> A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever. Origin: NL. See Miliary. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| miliaria alba | Miliaria with vesicles containing a milky fluid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliaria crystallina | A noninflammatory form of miliaria in which the vesicles are filled with clear fluid. Synonym: crystal rash, sudamina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliaria profunda | Pale firm papules, most commonly on the trunk; it is asymptomatic and results from severe damage to the sweat ducts after repeated episodes of miliaria rubra or from experimental injury. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliaria rubra | An eruption of papules and vesicles at the orifices of sweat glands, accompanied by redness and inflammatory reaction of the skin. Synonym: heat rash, lichen infantum, lichen strophulosus, prickly heat, strophulus, summer rash, tropical lichen, lichen tropicus, wildfire rash. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliary | 1. Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption. 2. <medicine> Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever. 3. <zoology> Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini. Origin: L. Miliarius, fr. Milium millet: cf. F. Miliaire. <zoology> One of the small tubercles of Echini. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| miliary abscess | One of a number of minute collections of pus, widely disseminated throughout an area or the whole body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliary aneurysm | Dilatation in the diameter of small arteries and arterioles secondary to lipohyalinosis from long-standing hypertension associated with intracerebral haematomas. Synonym: Charcot-Bouchard aneurysm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliary embolism | Embolism occurring simultaneously in a number of capillaries. Synonym: multiple embolism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliary fever | An infectious disease characterised by profuse sweating and the production of sudamina, occurring formerly in severe epidemics. Synonym: miliaria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliary lung infiltrate | <radiology> T tuberculosis / fungal disease, E eosinophilic granuloma, M metastases (thyroid, melanoma, choriocarcinoma, renal cell, breast), P pneumoconiosis, parasites, E embolism of oily contrast, S sarcoid, T tuberous sclerosis (12 Dec 1998) |
| miliary papular syphilid | Secondary eruption of small follicular papules, usually appearing as groups of lesions. Synonym: acuminate papular syphilid, lichen syphiliticus, miliary papular syphilid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| miliary pattern | A chest radiographic pattern of fine, rounded opacities, typical of haematogenous dissemination of tuberculosis; size has some relationship to that of a millet seed. (05 Mar 2000) |