Papule

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Papule \Pap"ule\, n.; pl. {Papules}.
     Same as {Papula}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  papule
       n : a small inflamed elevation of skin that is nonsuppurative
           (as in chicken pox)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "papule":
     abscess, aposteme, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo,
     bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid,
     chilblain, cold sore, eschar, felon, fester, festering,
     fever blister, fistula, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gumboil,
     hemorrhoids, kibe, lesion, papula, paronychia, parulis, petechia,
     piles, pimple, pock, polyp, pustule, rising, scab, soft chancre,
     sore, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, tubercle, ulcer,
     ulceration, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound