serpigo

American  

[ser-pahy-goh] / sərˈpaɪ goʊ /

noun

Pathology.

1. (formerly) a creeping or spreading skin disease, as ringworm.

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serpigo British  

/ sɜːˈpaɪɡəʊ, sɜːˈpɪdʒɪnəs /

noun

1. pathol any progressive skin eruption, such as ringworm or herpes

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Other Word Forms

• serpiginous
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of serpigo

1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin serpīgō, equivalent to Latin serp- (derivative of serpere to creep) + -īgō as in vertīgō vertigo; cf. herpes

Example Sentences

Hydrocele is not unfrequent, but hardly so general as in the Eastern Island; one manner of white man, a half caste from Macáo, was suffering with serpigo, and boasted of it.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I have sometimes been induced to think it nothing more than a confirmed stage of the serpigo or ringworm, or it may be the same with what is elsewhere termed the shingles.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William

Premising his remarks with a classification of diseases as follows: Diseases universal and infectious—like morphoea, serpigo, lepra, variolae et morbilli.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer

Friend hast thou none; For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire, The mere effusion of thy proper loins, Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum, For ending thee no sooner.

From Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, William

Friend hast thou none; For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire, 30 The mere effusion of thy proper loins, Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum, For ending thee no sooner.

From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge