Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a large pustule intermediate in character between a furuncle or boil and an ordinary pustule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
ulcerative pyoderma of theskin , caused bybacteria .
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Examples
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Contagious ecthyma in Norwegian semidomesticated reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus).
Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway 2010
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Prob. used non-specifically; the description in quot. 1543 suggests ecthyma or impetigo.
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Reasoning from which it has been found that the tincture, in a reduced form, and of a diminished strength, proves admirably curative of eczema, impetigo, and ecthyma.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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#From what diseases is ecthyma to be differentiated?
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The _large flat-pustular syphiloderm_ (_ecthyma-form syphiloderm_) consists of a more or less generalized, scattered eruption, of large pea - or dime-sized, flat pustules.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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#How would you differentiate the large flat-pustular syphiloderm from ecthyma?
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Action organic lipid solvents, saponin trypsin virus ecthyma contagiosum
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Adaptation virus contagious ecthyma cellular substrates avian origin
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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