herpetic
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of herpetic
1775–85; < Greek herpēt-, stem of hérpēs ( see herpes) + -ic
Example Sentences
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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
On location in Spain, where she is playing the role of Tonia, the demure, bourgeois wife of Dr. Zhivago, the great Charlie's daughter suddenly assumed a herpetic pose.
From Time Magazine Archive
One patient had developed a chronic herpetic affection by the constant use of an iodized ointment which he regarded as an infallible prophylactic.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles
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