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† essera Path. Obs. Also 8 essere, -rs. [med.L. essera, essere, ad. Arab. sharā, with the art. ash-sharā: see Avicenna Canon iv. iii. cap. 13 in the orig. and in the Lat. version of 1483. Cf. Fr. essère.] ‘Old term for a cutaneous eruption attacking the face and hands, resembling that caused by the sting of nettles, but the spots not elevated, and usually unattended by fever’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.); a variety of nettle-rash.
1706Phillips, Essere. 1721–1800Bailey, Essers. 1744Mitchell Colours of People in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 108 Cutaneous Diseases, as the Itch, prickly Heat or Essere. 1782W. Heberden Comm. iii. (1806) 14 The attacks of the essera or nettle-rash. 1811in Hooper Med. Dict. 1847in Craig; and in mod. Dicts. |