lupus vulgaris

1. 1.

   tuberculosis of the skin; appears first on the face and heals slowly leaving deep scars

   Broaderlupustuberculosis

Questions about lupus vulgaris

What does lupus vulgaris mean?

lupus vulgaris means "tuberculosis of the skin; appears first on the face and heals slowly leaving deep scars".

Is lupus vulgaris a common word?

lupus vulgaris is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.