dermographicadj.

1845 Monthly Jrnl. Med. Sci. July 531 Dermographic Crayons were invented by M. Pyrlas,..who suggested to M. Piorry that they might be used in place of ink and nitrate of silver, in studies with the plessimeter.

1881 Science 19 Mar. 131/1 Their ambition led them to execute a more intricate and ornamental design... Henceforth, be it understood, these dermographic artists will be looked upon as valuable auxiliaries to surgery.

1903 Lancet 17 Oct. 1118/1 It will be found (normally) that the pulmonary resonance extends a considerable distance inwards beyond the dermographic lines.

1937 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 38 293/2 Shortly before operation another grain of veronal is given..while tracing the outline of the operation with a dermographic pencil.

2008 E. Goode & D. A. Vail Extreme Deviance i. 13/2 In discussing those who have tattoos, the analyst..assumes a possessive relationship between the person and the dermographic embellishment that she or he has purchased.

1889 Edinb. Med. Jrnl. 34 ii. 1154 Jacquet affirms that every one suffering from a generalized urticaria is always dermographic.

1906 Lancet 28 July 256/1 I may state that the skin over the whole body was remarkably irritable and dermographic.

1934 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 12 July 4/4 The ‘dermographic’ skin condition is due to the reaction of terminal nerve filaments upon the terminal blood vessels.

1965 Arch. Dermatol. 92 200 The merits of the immunological tests..for the detection of penicillin sensitivity are analyzed, particularly as each applies to the various types of penicillin urticaria (serum sickness, anaphylactic, dermographic, delayed dermographic, and simple chronic urticaria and the lupus diathesis).

2004 B. Ghebrehiwet in M. W. Greaves & A. P. Kaplan Urticaria & Angioedema iv. 176 Cholinergic dermographism is seen in some patients with cholinergic urticaria whose dermographic response consists of an erythematous line studded with punctate wheals.