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ERYSIPELAS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does erysipelas mean?
• ERYSIPELAS (noun)
The noun ERYSIPELAS has 1 sense:
1. an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes
Familiarity information: ERYSIPELAS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("erysipelas" is a kind of...):
Saint Anthony's fire (any of several inflammatory or gangrenous skin conditions)
Context examples
It is pathogenic in a variety of organisms including domestic swine and humans, causing both cutaneous and septicemic infections and the disease swine erysipelas.
(Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, NCI Thesaurus)
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