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Bakersfield (sh) and piezogenic pedal papule (medicine)


Bakersfield (sh)




City (pop., 2000: city, 247,057; metro. area, 661,645), southern California, U.S. Situated on the Kern River in the San Joaquin Valley, it was founded in 1869 by Thomas Baker.

It was an agricultural area when the discovery of the Kern River oil fields in 1899 sparked a petroleum boom. The city was quickly rebuilt after a major earthquake in 1952. Nearby vineyards produce about a quarter of the Wine made in California.


piezogenic pedal papule (medicine)


piezogenic pedal papule
Pressure-induced papules of the heel, occurring probably as a result of herniation of fat tissue.

Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of Pregnancy (PUPPP), intensely pruritic papulovesicles that begin on the abdomen in the third trimester and spread peripherally, resolves rapidly after delivery and does not affect the foetus.

Split papules, papule's at commissures of the mouth seen in some cases of secondary syphilis.