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strophulus (countable and uncountable, plural strophuli)

  1. (medicine) An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; red-gum.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for strophulus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)