See also: telangiectasiae

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telangiectasiæ (archaic)

  1. plural of telangiectasia
    • 1871 November, B. F. Dawson, “On Vascular Nævi, and Their Treatment by the Actual Cautery”, in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, volume IV, number 3, page 514:
      In many cases the smallest telangiectasiæ will extend with great rapidity over a large extent of surface, during the first year of life, and continue so to do, accompanied with great disfigurement, until interference is absolutely called for.
    • 1879, Theodor Billroth, “Chapter XX. Tumors”, in General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: In Fifty-one Lectures. A Text-book for Students and Physicians., London: H. K. Lewis, translation of original by Charles E. Hackley, Lecture XLVII”, “7. Angiomata—Vascular Tumors, page 642:
      There is no doubt that the telangiectasiæ, which popularly are often called “mother’s-marks,” are often inherited. [] As regards the further fate of angioma, telangiectasiæ, which are almost always congenital, may be either solitary or multiple.
    • 1885, A. Neisser, “Chronic Infectious Diseases of the Skin”, in H. v. Ziemssen, editor, Handbook of Diseases of the Skin, New York: William Wood & Company; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, [], “I. Tuberculosis, Scrofulosis, Lupus”, page 298:
      However, the differential diagnosis will be facilitated by the presence, in acne and rosacea, of a uniform firmness in the elephantiasis-like neoplastic connective tissue, the more intense redness, also by the pustulous character of the rapidly developing acne efflorescences, by the non-implication of the pituitary membrane, by the presence of the small telangiectasiæ perceptible through the skin, and finally by the frequently very profuse seborrhœa.
    • 1885 October, “American Dermatological Association. Ninth Annual Meeting, Held August 26, 27, and 28, 1885.”, in Henry G. Piffard, Prince A. Morrow, editors, Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases, volume III, number 10, New York: William Wood & Company, [], page 304:
      In the older, the affection exhibited in a striking manner its three principal pathological features, an almost universal lenticular melano-derma, large areas of atrophic integument, and a considerable development of telangiectasiæ.