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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
OTHER WORDS FROM ecthyma
ec·thym·a·tous [ek-thim-uh-tuhs, -thahy-muh-], /ɛkˈθɪm ə təs, -ˈθaɪ mə-/, adjectiveWords nearby ecthyma
ectasia, ectatic, ectental, ectethmoid, ecthlipsis, ecthyma, ecto-, ectoantigen, ectoblast, ectocardia, ectocervix
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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 StelwagonYet 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 CreightonIn ecthyma the pustules are generally of the size of a split pea, and surrounded at their base by a broad halo of redness.
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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Medical definitions for ecthyma
ecthyma
[ ĕk-thī′mə ]
n.
A pyogenic infection of the skin due to staphylococci or streptococci and characterized by adherent crusts beneath which ulceration occurs.
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