Rhagades are fissures, cracks, or linear scars in the skin, especially at the angles of the mouth and nose. They tend to form at areas of motion. They can be a result from bacterial infection of skin lesions. They are one of the late-stage manifestations of congenital syphilis; others are saber shins, Hutchinson teeth, saddle nose, and Clutton's joints (usually knee synovitis).[1]

Fissures, or rhagades' (photo from "An American text-book of the diseases of children" (1895))

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  1. ^ Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics. p. 1472.
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