Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to or of the nature of impetigo.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, impetigo.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or having impetigo
Examples
“Pinner is a policeman; ah-dudda is an elastic and hard-worked adjective meaning (as P.M. Roget so neatly puts it) "dirty, filthy, nasty, squalid, gross, impetiginous, shameful, pernicious, sinister or mephitic.”
“Well-nigh vanished diseases reappeared; one old woman was affected with leprosy, another was, covered with impetiginous lichen like a tree which has rotted in the shade.”
“The _Pharmacopoeia Chirurgica_ of 1794, teaches: "A decoction of this plant has been found useful for scrofulous, impetiginous, and syphilitic affections.”
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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Some Medical Terms
A list of terms and procedures encountered in the medical literature, beginning with enterectomy.
Many of these terms are archaic, or obsolete.
More medical terms can be found on...enterectomy, ethmoid, parhidrosis, parelectronomy, parectasis, dermatoxerasia, parazygosis, parepididymis, paraspasm, lymphadenopathy, necrosemiosis, necromimesis and 770 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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