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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary:

pemphigus vul·gar·is

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(vŭl-gâr'ĭs)
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Pemphigus occurring in middle age, in which cutaneous flaccid acantholytic suprabasal bullae and oral mucosal erosions are first localized but, become generalized after a few months, forming blisters that break easily and are slow to heal.

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