All 4 Uses of
lupus
in
Brave New World
- The bulging flanks of row on receding row and tier above tier of bottles glinted with innumerable rubies, and among the rubies moved the dim red spectres of men and women with purple eyes and all the symptoms of lupus.†
p. 11.5
- One could see that, for all the lupus and the purple eyes, she was uncommonly pretty.†
p. 16.9 *
- Shifts might come and go, one lupus-coloured face give place to another; majestically and for ever the conveyors crept forward with their load of future men and women.†
p. 34.3
- Henry detected the weariness in those purple eyes, the pallor beneath that glaze of lupus, the sadness at the corners of the unsmiling crimson mouth.†
p. 186.5
Definition:
can refer to numerous autoimmune diseases, but most commonly to systemic lupus erythematosus, a chronic ulcerative skin disease