Pemphigus

(aexuoiyes, from meu me, & bubble). A fever attended by succe ive eruptions of vesicles about the size of almonds, which are filled with a yellowish serum, and in three or four days subside. The fever may be either synocha or typhus. It is a genus of disease in the cla pyrexia and order exanthemata of Cullen. It is divided according to the sizé of the eruption into major and minor.