Associations to the word «Pemphigus»

Wiktionary

PEMPHIGUS, noun. (pathology) A severe autoimmune skin disease characterized by pustules and painful blisters, and which can be fatal.

Dictionary definition

PEMPHIGUS, noun. A skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope