Definition of eruption

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Eruption (n.) The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion..

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Rash :: Rash (n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation..
Itch :: Itch (n.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact..
Outbreak :: Outbreak (n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.
Eruption :: Eruption (n.) That which bursts forth.
Humor :: Humor (n.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin..
Ecthyma :: Ecthyma (n.) A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base..
Rupia :: Rupia (n.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust..
Lichen :: Lichen (n.) A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion..
Eruption :: Eruption (n.) The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc..
Red-gum :: Red-gum (n.) An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus..
Eruptive :: Eruptive (a.) Produced by eruption; as, eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore..
Herpetic :: Herpetic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions..
Sudoriferous :: Sudoral (a.) Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions..
Miliary :: Miliary (a.) Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption..
Iodism :: Iodism (n.) A morbid state produced by the use of iodine and its compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin..
Serpigo :: Serpigo (n.) A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm..
Exanthesis :: Exanthesis (n.) An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.
Moya :: Moya (n.) Mud poured out from volcanoes during eruptions; -- so called in South America.
Blight :: Blight (n.) A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
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