Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or being a skin lesion with a wavy or indented margin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected with serpigo.
- In medicine, noting certain affections which creep, as it were, from one part to another: as, serpiginous erysipelas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.
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- adjective
creeping ,advancing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bristol — a common prostitute, sir, who had got all the worst symptoms of the disorder; such as nodi, tophi, and gummata, verruca, cristoe Galli, and a serpiginous eruption, or rather a pocky itch all over her body.
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Some fingers of it had even spread up onto his cheeks in a serpiginous margin.
Invasion Cook, Robin, 1940- 2000
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In one case a remarkable symmetrical serpiginous ulceration developed in the area of distribution of the cutaneous branches of the external popliteal nerve on the outer side of the leg.
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 George Henry Makins
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Bed-sores in sacral region developed during the first two days, and seventeen days later well-developed serpiginous trophic sores developed on the outer side of each leg and continued to increase slowly until death.
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 George Henry Makins
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A rodent ulcer was eating its way upwards, coiling on in its serpiginous fashion until the end of it was flush with her collar.
Round the Red Lamp 1894
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A rodent ulcer was eating its way upwards, coiling on in its serpiginous fashion until the end of it was flush with her collar.
Round the Red Lamp Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1894
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A rodent ulcer was eating its way upwards, coiling on in its serpiginous fashion until the end of it was flush with her collar.
Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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The ulcers have seldom the typically rounded or serpiginous outline of gummatous ulcers on other parts of the body.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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When the eruption spreads at the border, clearing up at the older part; as, for instance, in the serpiginous syphiloderm.
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 patch may consist, therefore, of small, discrete, punched-out ulcers, or of one or more continuous ulcers, segmented, crescentic or serpiginous in shape.
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
reesetee commented on the word serpiginous
Often used to describe a chronic medical affliction, such as a skin ailment, as slowly progressive or "creeping" (like ringworm). Serpignous choroidopathy is an eye condition that can involve the macula, the part of the fundus (eye) where central vision is processed.
March 13, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word serpiginous
Eewwwww. Cool word!
March 13, 2008