Pl. -ata. [late L., a. Gr. ἐξάνθημα eruption, f. ἐξανθέειν, f. ἐξ- out + ἀνθέειν to blossom, f. ἄνθος blossom.]
1. Path. An efflorescence, eruption or rash such as takes place in measles, small-pox, etc. Also, a disease characterized by efflorescence; an eruptive disease. Chiefly pl.
1657. Phys. Dict., Exanthemata, the small pox are pustules, and the measles spots which [etc.].
1766. Smollett, Trav., I. xxiv. 367. Some few persons of gross habits have … been seized with putrid fevers, attended with exanthemata.
1806. Med. Jrnl., XV. 383. Frambœsia … resembles variola and the other exanthemata.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 15. Certain febrile affections, especially the acute exanthemata.
2. Bot. Blotches and eruptive excrescences on the surface of leaves.
1866. in Treas. Bot.
1884. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
