ecthyma

[ ek-thuh-muh, ek-thahy- ]

/ ˈɛk θə mə, ɛkˈθaɪ- /

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noun Veterinary Pathology.

a contagious viral disease of sheep and goats and occasionally of humans, marked by vesicular and pustular lesions on the lips.

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Also called contagious ecthyma, sore mouth.

Origin of ecthyma

1825–35; <Greek ékthȳma pustule, equivalent to ek-ec- + thȳ́(ein) to be angry + -ma noun suffix

OTHER WORDS FROM ecthyma

ec·thym·a·tous

[ek-thim-uh-tuhs, -thahy-muh-], /ɛkˈθɪm ə təs, -ˈθaɪ mə-/, adjective

Words nearby ecthyma

ECT, ectad, ectal, ectasia, ecthlipsis, ecthyma, ecto-, ectoblast, ectocommensal, ectocornea, ectocrine

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How to use ecthyma in a sentence

How would you differentiate the large flat-pustular syphiloderm from ecthyma?
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin|Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Yet these cases were discriminated from smallpox; they were diagnosed, and have been recorded, as an epidemic of ecthyma.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton
In ecthyma the pustules are generally of the size of a split pea, and surrounded at their base by a broad halo of redness.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley

British Dictionary definitions for ecthyma

ecthyma

/ (ˈɛkθɪmə) /

noun

pathol a local inflammation of the skin characterized by flat ulcerating pustules

Word Origin for ecthyma

C19: from New Latin, from Greek ekthuma pustule, from ekthuein to break out, from ek- out + thuein to seethe

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