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UK
/skˌɑːlɐtˈiːnɐ/
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NOUN
- an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash
How To Use scarlatina In A Sentence
- They were liable to pneumonia, respiratory, and tubercular diseases but were comparatively exempt from malaria, diphtheria, and scarlatina.
- Bouchut has remarked in the eruptions of scarlatina a curious phenomenon, which serves to distinguish this eruption from that of measles, erythema, erysipelas &c., a phenomenon essentially vital, and which is connected with the excessive contractability of the capillaries. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
- The dermal manifestations, such as urticaria and eruptions resembling the exanthem of scarlatina, are too well known to need mention here. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- Such illnesses as flu, measles, scarlatina and type A hepatitis are most likely to strike during the period.
- That these were actually cases of scarlatina was rendered certain by two servants in the family falling ill at the same time with the distemper, who had been exposed to the infection with the young ladies. On Vaccination Against Smallpox
- This is hardly surprising in an age when resistance to infectious disease was weak and a whole host of endemic maladies — infantile diarrhea, dysentery, scarlatina, measles — very often proved fatal, above all to infants and young children. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
- Occurrence of tonsillopharyngitis, scarlatina and rheumatic fever was analyzed and GAS carrier status in healthy children was examined over a 9-yr period from 1991 to 1999.
- She was planning to get a complete blood count, and her supervisor instructed her to add a strep test even though the rash was not typical for scarlatina.
- She was exposed to the contagion of the scarlatina at the same time, and sickened almost at the same hour. On Vaccination Against Smallpox
- Coming as it did from cowsheds in London and from the surrounding countryside; it “proved," in the eyes of Charles Dickens Jr, "often the source of, or rather, perhaps, the means of spreading, serious epidemics of typhoid, diphtheria, and scarlatina.” Archive 2007-12-01