ecthyma

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

noun Veterinary Pathology.

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

Origin of ecthyma

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

Also called contagious ecthyma, sore mouth.

Related formsec·thym·a·tous

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

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Examples from the Web for ecthyma

Historical Examples of ecthyma

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
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

British Dictionary definitions for ecthyma

ecthyma

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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ecthyma in Medicine

ecthyma

[ĕk-thī′mə]

A pyogenic infection of the skin due to staphylococci or streptococci and characterized by adherent crusts beneath which ulceration occurs.