Erysipeloid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Erysipeloid is an adjective meaning (medicine) Resembling erysipelas.
Meaning
(medicine) Resembling erysipelas.
More Meanings
- (pathology, usually uncountable) A mild cutaneous infection by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in humans that resembles erysipelas.
- (medicine, countable) A cutaneous cancer metastasis, most commonly associated with breast carcinoma, presenting as an erythematous patch or plaque that resembles erysipelas.
Example Sentences
The diffuse phlebitis is an erysipeloid form of the disease, often running for a considerable distance along the coat of the vein, which becomes thickened, pulpy, and red, without adhesions forming, or the blood coagulating; indeed, in these cases there appears to be a great want of plasticity in this fluid.
Word Forms
- erysipeloids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include psoriasiform, petechioid, eczematiform, erythraemic, epispastic, leproid.
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