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noun

Lupus n.

(Med.) Originally, a cutaneous disease with the appearance of the skin having been gnawed, and occurring under two distinct forms. Now used as a generic term for over ten distinguishable diseases having visible cutaneous symptoms. Note: Lupus erythematosus is characterized by an eruption of red patches, which become incrusted, leaving superficial scars. Lupus vulgaris is marked by the development of nodules which often ulcerate deeply and produce great deformity. Prior to 1900 the latter was often confounded with cancer, and some varieties of cancer were included under Lupus. Systemic lupus erythematosus is an inflammatory connective tissue disease occurring mostly in women, characterized by skin rash, fever, and arthritic symptoms, and often accompanied by hemolytic anemia, inflammation of the pericardium, glomerular lesions, and hyperglobulinemia; the condition shows positive in the LE cell test. br/

(Astron.) The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio.

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"Lupus" Quotes from Famous Books

... and Andrushka that I vituperate them. In the pocket of my greatcoat I found some notes on which was scrawled: "Anton Pavlovitch, for shame, for shame, for shame!" O pessimi discipuli! Utinam vos lupus devoret! ...

— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov

... others. Herod related that the Egyptians treated patients by exposure to direct sunlight and throughout the centuries and among all types of civilization sunlight has been recognized as having certain valuable healing or purifying properties. Finsen in his early experiments cured a case of lupus, a tuberculous skin disease, by means of the visible and near ultra-violet rays in sunlight. He demonstrated that these were the effective rays by using only the radiant energy which passed through a water-cell made by using a convex lens for each end of the cell and ...

— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh

... my money, and whatsoever I have, for I have nothing but my wit, that they are at hand. Why, any sensible snout may wind Master Amoretto and his pomander, Master Recorder and his two neat's feet that wear no socks, Sir Raderic by his rammish complexion; Olet Gorgonius hircum, sicut Lupus in fabula. Furor, fire the touch-box of your wit: Phantasma, let your invention play tricks like an ape: begin thou, Furor, and open like a flap-mouthed hound: follow thou, Phantasma, like a lady's puppy: and as for me, let me alone; I'll come after, like a water-dog, that will shake them off ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... liturgy originally drawn up and used by St. Mark the evangelist; it was afterwards followed by St. Gregory Nazianzen, St. Basil, and other Greek Fathers; then by Cassian, Honoratus, St. Cassarius of Aries, St. Lupus of Troyes, and St. Germaine of Auxerre, from whom St. Patrick received it, when setting out on his mission to Ireland. A copy of the "Cursus Scotorum" was found by Mabillon, in the ancient monastery of Bobbio, of which St. Columbanus was founder, and which missal ...

— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier

... medical magazine at Berlin a communication on a possible remedy for tuberculosis. He had prepared a sort of lymph suitable for hypodermic injection, and with this had experimented on a form of external tuberculosis called lupus. This disease is a consumption of the skin and adjacent tissues. It is a malady almost as dreadful as consumption of the lungs, but is by no means frequent in its occurrence. It is found only at rare ...

— Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century - Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World • Various

... They who cry "Wolf!" whenever they see a leveret are not believed when Lupus comes. They who suffer "excruciating agony" whenever a thorn pricks, can say no more under exquisite pain, and their familiar words are powerless to evoke the sympathy which they have repelled so long. They are more likely to receive the severe rebuke ...

— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie

... lappets. I noticed at once that the right lappet was larger than the left. Evidently it had been made so with the design of hiding a patch of affected skin below the ear, which looked to me as though it had been caused by the malady called lupus. I noticed further that the little woman was reading an anti-vaccination tract with a fearful picture of a diseased arm ...

— Doctor Therne • H. Rider Haggard

... Tufa. Calciferous Sand-rock. Calveria. Calymene; Blumenbachii. Camarophoria globulina. Cambrian period; rocks of, in Britain; in Bohemia; in North America; life of. Camelopardalidoe. Camels. Canis lupus; Parisiensis. Caradoc rocks. Carbon, origin of. Carboniferous Limestone. Carboniferous period; rocks of; life of. Carboniferous Slates of Ireland. Carcharias. Carcharodon; productus. Cardinia. Cardiocarpon. Cardiola; fibrosa; interrupta. Cardita; planicosta. Cardium; Rhoeticum. ...

— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson

Words linked to "Lupus" : LE, Canis lupus, skin disorder, discoid lupus erythematosus, Canis lupus tundrarum, systemic lupus erythematosus, DLE, lupus erythematosus, SLE, disease of the skin, constellation