creeping eruption
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nounDefinition 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
creep·ing eruption
noun \ˈkrē-piŋ-\ (Medical Dictionary)Medical Definition of CREEPING ERUPTION
: a human skin disorder that is characterized by a red line of eruption which fades at one end as it progresses at the other and that is usually caused by insect or worm larvae and especially those of the dog hookworm burrowing in the deeper layers of the skin—called also larval migrans, larva migrans
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