Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lupus_vulgaris

1 sense of lupus vulgaris

Sense 1
lupus vulgaris -- (tuberculosis of the skin; appears first on the face and heals slowly leaving deep scars)
       => lupus -- (any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease)
       => tuberculosis, TB, T.B. -- (infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages))