Rosacea/Glossary
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- Blushing:
- A relatively short-term extra redness due to various mental causes such as embarrassment, shame, modesty; often accompanied by warm/hot sensations.
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- Erythema
- Abnormal redness of the skin.
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- Flushing:
- A prolonged (extra)redness of the face(and neck) caused by cutaneous vasodilation often due to physical causes, such as cold weather/wind, sunshine, heat etc. Flushing often includes a burning sensation.
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- IPL:
- Intense Pulsed Light — A treatment to remove blood vessels from the skin.
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- Nd-YAG
- Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminium Garnet — A compound that is used as the lasing medium for certain solid-state lasers.
- NRS
- National Rosacea Society — A U.S. organisation for patients and doctors.
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- Ocular / Occular:
- Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight.
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- Pustule:
- A raised lesion that contains pus and sometimes water.
- Papule:
- A small, solid and usually conical elevation of the skin which does not contain pus.
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- RRDI
- Rosacea Research & Development Institute — A worldwide organisation devoted to funding research.
- RLT
- Red Light Therapy — A certain phototherapy that improves skin and can be beneficial to rosacea.
- Rhinophyma:
- A large, bulbous and ruddy appearance of the nose caused by (advanced)phymatous rosacea.
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- SR
- Skin Rejuvenation — A term used for specific types of Intense Pulsed Light and Laser treatments.
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- Telangiectasia:
- Small dilated blood vessels near the surface of the skin, also known as spider veins.
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- VL
- Vascular Lesions — A term used for specific types of Intense Pulsed Light and Laser treatments that treat vascular lesions.
