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lupus

In medicine, any of various diseases characterized by lesions of the skin. One form (lupus vulgaris) is caused by the tubercle bacillus (see tuberculosis). The organism produces ulcers that spread and eat away the underlying tissues. Treatment is primarily with standard antituberculous drugs, but ultraviolet light may also be used.

Lupus erythematous (LE) has two forms: discoid LE, seen as red, scaly patches on the skin, especially the face; and disseminated or systemic LE, which may affect connective tissue anywhere in the body, often involving the internal organs. The latter is much more serious. Treatment is with corticosteroids. LE is an autoimmune disease.

It was announced in June 2000 that lupus affects over 1 million people in the USA.

Lupus

Constellation of the southern hemisphere, represented as a wolf. Most of its brighter stars form part of Gould's Belt.



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"Triste lupus stabulis," began the luckless youngster, and stammered through some eight or ten lines.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
, and who beareth quarterly, first, argent, a wolf ravisant carrying a lamb gules; second, purpure, three mascles argent, two and one; third, paly of twelve, gules and argent; fourth, or, on a pale endorsed, three batons fleurdelises gules; supported by four griffon's-claws jessant from the sides of the escutcheon, with the motto "En Lupus in Historia," was able to surmount these rather satirical arms with a count's coronet.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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