creeping eruption


creeping eruption

noun

Definition of CREEPING ERUPTION

: a skin disorder marked by a spreading red line of eruption and caused especially by larvae (as of hookworms not normally parasitic in humans) burrowing beneath the human skin

First Known Use of CREEPING ERUPTION

1926

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