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Definition of: pemphigus
(pem′fə·gəs, pem·fī′-) noun Pathol.
A skin disease characterized by watery vesicles successively formed on various parts of the body; water blebs; bladdery fever. Also pem′·phix (-fiks). [<NL <Gk. pemphix, -igos a breath, a pustule]
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