Confluent vs Maculopapular - What's the difference?
confluent | maculopapular |
Converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).
* 1851 ,
(meteorology) (Of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart
(biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass
(geometry) (Of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle.
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(medicine, of a rash) Consisting of a flat, red area on the skin that is covered with small confluent bumps, as in scarlet fever and measles.
As adjectives the difference between confluent and maculopapular
is that confluent is converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects) while maculopapular is (medicine|of a rash) consisting of a flat, red area on the skin that is covered with small confluent bumps, as in scarlet fever and measles.confluent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A confluent smallpox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.