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The larvae migrate in tortuous tunnels between the stratum basale and stratum corneum of the skin, causing serpiginous vesicular lesions.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2019

When is an eruption said to be serpiginous?

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

The patch may consist, therefore, of small, discrete, punched-out ulcers, or of one or more continuous ulcers, segmented, crescentic or serpiginous in shape.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

The ulcers have seldom the typically rounded or serpiginous outline of gummatous ulcers on other parts of the body.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

They may follow a reddened and hyper�sthetic condition of the cutaneous tissues, or they may be surrounded by a serpiginous border of this character.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various