Meaning hives
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An allergic reaction from food or medication where red, itchy, and swollen spots appear on the skin. Hives are commonly known as Urticaria. Contact Dr. Miller for this type of dermatological treatment
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Confined, short-term elevation or irregular fluid-filled spot on the skin, slightly reddened, often changing in size and shape and extending to adjacent areas. Hives suddenly erupt and are usually acc [..]
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A raised, itchy area of skin that may be a sign of an allergic reaction. It can be rounded or flat-topped but is always elevated above the surrounding skin. It reflects circumscribed dermal edema (local swelling of the skin). The hives are usually well circumscribed but may be coalescent and will blanch with pressure. A single spot is almost always [..]
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Itchy, raised red areas on the skin. Hives are caused by a reaction to certain foods, drugs, infections, or emotional stress. Also called urticaria.
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Swellings under the skin that can be caused by food allergies or anything else
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c. 1500 hyvis "itchy condition of the skin," origin unknown. Some writers connect it with heave because hives erupt out from the skin, but the phonetics of that are difficult to explain.
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urticaria
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To dream that your child is affected with hives, denotes that it will enjoy good health and be docile. To see strange children thus affected, you will be unduly frightened over the condition of some favorite.   
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red and sometimes itchy bumps on the skin, usually caused by an allergic reaction to a drug or a food.
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bumps that appear on the surface of the skin during an allergic reaction
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A skin reaction that results in slightly elevated patches that are redder or paler than the surrounding skin and often are accompanied by itching.
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An itchy rash of usually short duration. Also known as urticaria.
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an allergic skin disorder, often attended by severe itching.  Also called cynanche trachealis.
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Usually mild hives are not a problem and will go away on their own. Less often, hives can be a sign of a serious allergic reaction that needs immediate medical care.
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A vascular reaction of the Skin characterized by Erythema and wheal formation due to localized increase of vascular Permeability. The causative mechanism may be Allergy, Infection, or stress.
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Itchy, raised red areas on the skin. Hives are caused by a reaction to certain foods, drugs, infections, or emotional stress. Also called urticaria.
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itchy, raised, red areas on the skin that can result from an allergic reaction
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Looks like nettle rash, large red raised lumps with a white area in the middle (Urticaria)
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See Urticaria.
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, sb. red, itchy, raised spots on the skin.
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A raised and red skin reaction caused by a local or systemic exposure to a substance that is typically triggered by local mast cell activation.
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Hives, also known as urticaria, is a kind of skin rash with red, raised, itchy bumps. They may also burn or sting. Often the patches of rash move around. Typically they last a few days and do not leav [..]
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Hives (Croatian: Košnice) is a 2012 Croatian anthology film. It had its national premiere at the 59th Pula Film Festival (Croatia) and its international premiere at the 60th San Sebastián Internationa [..]
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The least severe type of anaphylactic (allergic) reaction. Small bumps occur on the skin. The hair may stand up over these swellings and sometimes they itch.
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The eruption of red marks on the skin that are usually accompanied by itching. This condition can be caused by an allergy (e.g. to food or drugs), stress, infection or physical agents (e.g. heat or co [..]
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