The term given to any skin lesion which is the result of infection with the tubercle bacillus, or Mycobacterium tuberculosis as it is now known.
n. an eruption of the skin that arises in response to an internal focus of tuberculosis.
a rare disease of young women in which tender nodules develop under the skin in the calves. The condition is a *tuberculide; the nodules may break down and ulcerate though they may clear up spontaneously. Medical name: erythema induratum. [A. P. E. Bazin (1807–78), French dermatologist]... bazin’s disease
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