Definitions for papule

papule pap·ule

Spelling: [pap-yool]
IPA: /ˈpæp yul/

Papule is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in papule (aelppu).

Definitions for papule

noun

  1. a small, somewhat pointed elevation of the skin, usually inflammatory but nonsuppurative.

Origin of papule

1855-60; Latin papula pimple, pustule, akin to papilla nipple. See pap2, -ule

Examples for papule

Slight exudation of plasma, with a few corpuscles, usually follows, and produces elevation of the papule itself.

This papule increases in superficial area, but not in height, and gradually loses its redness.

Involution is marked by cessation of oozing, subsidence of the papule and scar-like changes at the site of the lesion.

The disease pursues a regular course of papule, pustule, and sore; and is said never to recur.

In the venereal disease the local trouble commences as a papule and breaks into an ulcer without having formed a pustule.

Word Value for papule
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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