Definitions for papules

papules pap·ule

Spelling: [pap-yool]
IPA: /ˈpæp yul/

Papules is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in papules (aelppsu).

Definitions for papules

noun

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

Origin of papules

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

Examples for papules

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for papules
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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