See Also: livedo vasculitis(medicine)
livedo(medicine)
Livedo reticularis(health)
postmortem livedo(medicine)
livedo racemosa(medicine)
livedo reticularis(medicine)
livedo telangiectatica(medicine)
angiitis livedo reticularis(medicine)
livedo reticularis idiopathica(medicine)
livedo reticularis symptomatica(medicine)

metonymy (iou) and livedo vasculitis (medicine)


metonymy (iou)



metonymy noun. M16.
[Late Latin metonymia from Greek metonumia lit. 'change of name', formed as META- + onuma name: see -NYM, -Y3.]
The substitution of a word denoting an attribute or adjunct of a thing for the word denoting the thing itself; an instance of this. M16.
Athenaeum 'Stokes', the name of the inventor..has, by metonymy, come to mean the trench mortar gun itself.
A thing used or regarded as a substitute for or symbol of something else. M20.
meto'nymic adjective of, involving, or used in metonymy L18.
meto'nymical adjective = metonymic M16.
meto'nymically adverb L16.

livedo vasculitis (medicine)


livedo vasculitis
<dermatology> Hyaline degeneration of the walls of small dermal blood vessels with occlusion seen with cryoglobulinaemia or in atrophie blanche.