herpetic
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of herpetic
1775–85; < Greek herpēt-, stem of hérpēs ( see herpes) + -ic
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He says it is possible the surgeon may have had a herpetic whitlow - a herpes infection on the finger - which could have "directly seeded the herpes into the abdomen of the women".
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2021
Opening image: A white suit, belted at the waist, appears contained, but a babble of valves and blisters erupts at both ends in herpetic chaos.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017
Ophthalmologist Herbert E. Kaufman told a Manhattan symposium on virology last week that he has used the drug in 46 cases of a common infection of the eyes called herpetic keratoconjunctivitis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now Dr. John Bellows of Northwestern University reports that it is highly effective in the treatment of a viral infection of the eye called herpetic keratitis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Feron also calls Bretonneau's mild form of the disease a herpetic angina with pseudo-membrane; so does Gubler.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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