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rash

2[rash]
–noun
1. an eruption or efflorescence on the skin.
2. a multitude of instances of something occurring more or less during the same period of time: a rash of robberies last month.

Origin:
1700–10; < F rache (obs.), OF rasche skin eruption, deriv. of raschier to scratch, ult. < L rādere to scratch


rashlike, adjective
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rash 2   (rāsh)   
n.  
  1. A skin eruption.

  2. An outbreak of many instances within a brief period: a rash of burglaries.


[Possibly from obsolete French rache, a sore, from Old French rasche, scurf, from raschier, to scrape, scratch, from Vulgar Latin *rāsicāre, from Latin rāsus, past participle of rādere; see rēd- in Indo-European roots.]
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: rash
Pronunciation: 'rash
Function: noun
: an eruption on the body typically with little or no elevation above the surface
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rash (rāsh)
n.
A skin eruption.

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