erythema
- n abnormal redness of the skin resulting from dilation of blood vessels (as in sunburn or inflammation)
- Women were turning up at doctors' offices suffering from bullous erythema (reddish blisters) on their legs.
- There is no specific treatment for the erythema, but even without a physician's care practically all the victims recover.
- In fact, in the latest issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, the Yale doctors point out that European doctors have long known of a tick-borne infection called erythema chronicum .