The Collaborative International Dictionary
Erysipelatous \Er`y*si*pel"a*tous\ ([e^]r`[i^]*s[i^]*p[e^]l"[.a]*t[u^]s), a. [Cf. F. Resembling erysipelas, or partaking of its nature.
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a. Resembling erysipelas.
Usage examples of "erysipelatous".
Ingleby gives another series of seven eases which occurred to a practitioner in 1836, the first of which was also attributed to his having opened several erysipelatous abscesses a short time previously.
We may notice that some children are far more subject to boils, croups, and erysipelatous diseases than others.
The right arm healed, but the left showed erysipelatous inflammation, culminating in edema, which affected the glottis to such an extent that tracheotomy was performed to save her life.
If the disease is of an erysipelatous nature, as many suppose, contagionists may perhaps find some ground for their belief in the fact, that, for two weeks previous to my first case of puerperal fever, I had been attending a severe case of erysipelas, and the infection may have been conveyed through me to the patient.