n.
Any of several connective tissue disorders, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, that primarily affect women of childbearing age, have a variety of clinical forms, and are characterized by red scaly skin lesions.
[New Latin lupus erythēmatōsus : LUPUS + erythēmatōsus, erythematous.]
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