n :  a disease that occurs esp. in middle-aged women, that is characterized by red raised often painful patches on the skin, fever, and neutrophilia in the peripheral blood, that responds to treatment with corticosteroids but not antibiotics, and that is of unknown cause but is sometimes associated with an underlying malignant disorder - called also acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis 
 
Sweet, Robert Douglas (fl 1964), British dermatologist. Sweet published his description of acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis in 1964.
 
 
 
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