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An acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes
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erysipelas
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Erysipelas (; Greek ἐρυσίπελας, "red skin"; also known as "ignis sacer", "holy fire", and "St. Anthony's fire" in some countries) is an acute infection typically with a skin rash, usually on any of the legs and toes, face, arms, and fingers. It is an infection ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context disease English) severe skin disease caused by streptococcus infection in surface and surrounding tissue, marked by continued spreading inflammation
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
erysipelas \er`y*sip"e*las\ ([e^]r`[i^]*s[i^]p"[-e]*las), n. [L., fr. Gr. 'erysi`pelas; 'eryqro`s red + pe`lla hide, skin. See Red , and Pell , n.] (Med.) St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused red edematous inflammation ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., skin disease also known as St. Anthony's Fire , from Greek erysipelas , perhaps from erythros "red" (see red (1)) + pella "skin" (see film (n.)). Related: Erysipelatous .
Usage examples of erysipelas.
We have occasionally observed cutaneous eruptions and erysipelas, when evidently they were distinct signs of internal disorder.
Hence, the utmost care should be taken against exposure of a patient recovering from scarlatina, and the same caution should be exercised during convalescence from measles, erysipelas, and rheumatism.
Pityriasis is caused by nutritive debility, and is often associated with erysipelas, rheumatism, and bronchitis.
The same medicine also did great things for my now deceased husband in a case of erysipelas of long standing.
I have for the past eleven years been using it for the erysipelas and also for chronic diarrhea, and am glad to say that it has never failed.
I have no more weakness, and all evidence of erysipelas has disappeared.
Acute Catarrh also occurs during the initial stage of such eruptive diseases as measles, typhus, typhoid, erysipelas, etc.
I have no more weakness, and all evidence or erysipelas has disappeared.
The acute form is frequently a complication, or sequel of scarlet fever, diphtheria, cholera, typhoid fever, erysipelas or measles, and is frequently developed by intemperance.
It was a cure for impurities of the blood, coughs, pleurisy, peripneumony, erysipelas, asthma, indigestion, carchexia, hysterics, dropsy, mortification, scurvy, and hypochondria.
When the first case occurred, he was attending and dressing a limb extensively mortified from erysipelas, and went immediately to the accouchement with his clothes and gloves most thoroughly imbued with its efluvia.
Several cases of erysipelas occurred in the house where the autopsy mentioned above took place, soon after the examination.
There were also many cases of erysipelas in town at the time of the fatal puerperal cases which have been mentioned.
It should also be stated, that during these seventeen days he was in attendance on all the cases of erysipelas in the house where the autopsy had been performed.
I have had a more inveterate case of erysipelas than ever before, and no difficulty whatever has attended any of my midwifery cases?