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Pemphigoid

Introduction: Pemphigoid

Description of Pemphigoid

Pemphigoid (medical condition): A chronic, autoimmune skin disorder that involves large blisters. The blisters can occur in small areas on the body or can be quite widespread. The condition is more common in elderly people. ...more

Pemphigoid: See also:

Bullous Pemphigoid:
  »Introduction: Bullous Pemphigoid
  »Symptoms of Bullous Pemphigoid

Pemphigoid: An autoimmune disease characterized by chronic itchy blistering of the skin. Also called bullous pemphigoid.

Pemphigoid: (1) Resembling pemphigus. (2) A disease resembling pemphigus but significantly distinguishable histologically (nonacantholytic) and clinically (generally benign course). [G. pemphix, blister, + eidos, resemblance]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Pemphigoid: A chronic and relatively benign subepidermal blistering disease usually of the elderly and without histopathologic acantholysis.
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Pemphigoid as a Disease

Pemphigoid: Another name for Bullous Pemphigoid (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Bullous Pemphigoid
  »Symptoms of Bullous Pemphigoid

Pemphigoid: Related Diseases

Pemphigoid: Pemphigoid is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

Symptoms of Pemphigoid (Bullous Pemphigoid)

Some of the symptoms of Pemphigoid incude:

See full list of 9 symptoms of Pemphigoid (Bullous Pemphigoid)

Pemphigoid: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Pemphigoid:

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The following terms can be used for Pemphigoid

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Hierarchical classifications of Pemphigoid

The following list attempts to classify Pemphigoid into categories where each line is subset of the next.

Disease Ontology - OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies)

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