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n. - A skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane.

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  • His underlying disease was pemphigus vulgaris, a nasty autoimmune blistering disease of the skin.
  • ‘Materia Medica,’ etc., is pemphigus, so pemphigus it is, and he has been ‘tonic – ed’ and massaged.
  • He had been in failing health in recent years, battling cancer of the esophagus as well as pemphigus, a rare autoimmune disease.
  • #How do these several diseases differ from pemphigus?
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