Path. Obs. Also 8 essere, -rs. [med.L. essera, essere, ad. Arab. sharā, with the art. ash-sharā: see Avicenna Canon IV. iii. cap. 13 in the orig. and in the Lat. version of 1483. Cf. Fr. essère.] ‘Old term for a cutaneous eruption attacking the face and hands, resembling that caused by the sting of nettles, but the spots not elevated, and usually unattended by fever’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.); a variety of nettle-rash.

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1706.  Phillips, Essere.

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1721–1800.  Bailey, Essers.

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1744.  Mitchell, Colours of People, in Phil. Trans., XLIII. 108. Cutaneous Diseases, as the Itch, prickly Heat or Essere.

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1782.  W. Heberden, Comm., iii. (1806), 14. The attacks of the esseram or nettle-rash.

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1811.  in Hooper, Med. Dict.

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1847.  in Craig; and in mod. Dicts.

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