Rose spots (redirected from Rose spot)

rose spots

pl.n.

The characteristic rose-colored spots of typhoid fever.

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Rose spots

Small slightly raised reddish pimples that are a distinguishing feature of typhoid or paratyphoid infection.

Mentioned in: Paratyphoid Fever

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rose spots Infectious disease Innumerable transient 1-5 mm in diameter blanchable reddish macules on the lower chest and upper abdomen, caused by bacterial emboli in skin vessels accompanied by focal aggregates of macrophages; RSs classically occur in Salmonella typhi-induced typhoid fever in the 1^st wk of disease, coinciding with the onset of splenomegaly. See Typhoid fever.