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
Now Dr. John Bellows of Northwestern University reports that it is highly effective in the treatment of a viral infection of the eye called herpetic keratitis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Several crops of herpetic vesicles also developed over the distribution of the radial nerve in the hand.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry
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