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ERUPTION

Volume 4 · 40 words · 1778 Edition

in medicine, a sudden and copious excretion of humours, as pus or blood; it signifies also the same with exanthema, any breaking out, as the pustules of the plague, small-pox, measles, &c.

ERUPTION of Volcanes. See Etna, Vesuvius, Volcano, &c.