The classic appearance of chicken pox is what doctors describe as a dew drop on a rose petal. Those clear water blisters become cloudy water blisters, and then they pop and they become open sores, and ...

on drop-shedding surfaces, the tiny bumps have wax-coated tips and are separated by narrower troughs, so they make less contact with water. Feng thinks that the rose's waxless "petal effect" might ...

The rash from chicken pox is what separates it from most other diseases. “The blisters look like dew drops scattered on skin. They are in a lot of different phases. Some are just coming on ...

(The classic description of chicken-pox lesions is “dewdrops on a rose petal,” although “angry little red zits” would be more apt. “Chicken pox” is also a total misnomer—it’s a ...

Behind the natural beauty of a rosebud covered in dew drops lies a decades-old mystery ... Once the team realized what the rose petals were doing to hold water, they were curious whether they ...

“The classic description of genital herpes is ‘dew drops on a rose petal,’” says Peter Leone, M.D., an adjunct professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine. “You get these little ...