SINCE 1828
rhinoscleroma
noun
rhi·no·scle·ro·ma
| \ ˌrī-nō-sklə-ˈrō-mə
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Medical Definition of rhinoscleroma
: a chronic inflammatory disease of the mucosa of the respiratory tract and especially the nasal cavity that is caused by infection with a bacterium of the genus Klebsiella (K. rhinoscleromatis) and is marked by granulomatous swelling with the formation of rubbery nodules followed by sclerosis of tissue
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