lupusn.
/ˈl(j)uːpəs/, U.S. /ˈlupəs/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf)
wolfc725
greyOE
Isegrima1300
grey wolf1595
lupus?a1600
witch's horse1865
?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. Pref. 346 God forwairns you..To ken the lupus in a lamb skyn lappit.
2. The wolf, a southern constellation situated to the south of Scorpio, and joined to Centaur.
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the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Lupus
wolf1556
lupus1706
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lupus,..a Southern Constellation.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 203/1 Lupus (the Wolf), one of the old constellations.
3. The pike or luce.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > esox lucius (true pike)
hakedeOE
pike1314
ged1324
water wolfa1398
luce14..
pike fish1494
lucetc1550
wolf1555
lucern1615
river wolf1655
jack fish1659
luscio1680
lupus1706
pickerel1709
esox1774
fresh-water shark1799
pickering1842
northern1950
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lupus,..the Pike, or Sturgeon, a Fish.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 42 Sluggish mugils and the voracious lupus should be selected as easy to rear.
4. attributive.1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 685 The lupus patients treated by tuberculin.1900 J. Hutchinson in Archives Surg. XI. 52 The lupus scar.1900 J. Hutchinson in Archives Surg. XI. 53 The form of cancer..is very like lupus cancer.1900 J. Hutchinson in Archives Surg. XI. 218 Lupus patches.
a. An ulcerous disease of the skin, sometimes erosive, sometimes hypertrophous.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > lupus
noli me tangerea1398
touch-me-notc1450
wolf1559
lupus1583
lupus erythematosus1852
lupus vulgaris1852
butterfly lupus1879
minimus1886
SLE1958
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 208 Summen clepen it cancrum, & summen lupum.]
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. xxiv. 256 Lupus is a malignant vlcer quickly consuming the neither partes..and it is very hungry like vnto a woulfe.
1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 182 Lupus,..a sort of Canker in the Thighs and Legs.
1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 333 Lupus: Noli Me Tangere.
1876 Trans. Clin. Soc. 9 165 The comparatively rare..sebaceous Lupus or Bat's-wing disease.
1897 W. Anderson On Surg. Treatm. Lupus 1 Lupus is still as defiant as in the dark ages.
b. Used in various modern Latin (or sometimes Englished) collocations to designate various forms and manifestations of lupus vulgaris or to designate various other skin diseases: lupus erythematosus n. [translating French lupus érythémateux (Casenave 1850, in Gaz. des Hôpitaux 27 July 354/3): see erythematous adj. at erythema n. Derivatives] a disease which is now considered to be manifested in two related forms, that of chronic discoid lupus erythematosus, which usually involves only the skin and causes scaly red patches to form esp. on the face, and that of systemic lupus erythematosus, which produces a similar skin condition but involves the connective tissues generally and is attended by widespread symptoms of illness, esp. fever, malaise, and arthralgia. lupus vulgaris n. a tuberculous disease of the skin, characterized by the formation of brownish nodules; = 4.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > lupus
noli me tangerea1398
touch-me-notc1450
wolf1559
lupus1583
lupus erythematosus1852
lupus vulgaris1852
butterfly lupus1879
minimus1886
SLE1958
1852 Med. Times & Gaz. XXVI. 141 (heading) Treatment of lupus exedens.
1857 Lancet 1 Aug. 116/2 (heading) Horrible deformity from lupus vorax.
1860 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 62 462 In lupus vulgaris it [sc. a liquid remedy] is seldom used, but in lupus erythematosus it may be considered a true specific.
1878 Lancet 13 July 35/1 (heading) Clincial lecture on disseminated follicular lupus.
1883 Med. Chron. (Baltimore) I. 271 (heading) Notes of a case of erythematous lupus complicated by the tubercular syphiloderm.
1947 Sci. News 4 106 Tuberculosis can attack not only the lungs but also most other parts of the body—bones and joints, kidneys, glands, brain, and skin. In the last mentioned the disease is known under the Latin name of Lupus vulgaris.
1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. II. xxxix. 1547 In systemic lupus erythematosus the skin manifestations are merely part of a much more widespread disorder.
1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xxxi. 47/2 Lupus vulgaris most commonly begins in childhood.
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