Exanthem

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A widespread rash usually occurring in children. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease wordnet

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exanthema, from Ancient Greek ἐξάνθημα (exánthēma), from ἐξανθέω (exanthéō), from ἐξ (ex) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”).

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