Erysipelas Definition

ĕrĭ-sĭpə-ləs, îr-
noun
An acute infectious disease of the skin or mucous membranes caused by a streptococcus and characterized by local inflammation and fever.
Webster's New World
Infection of pigs, sheep, turkeys, or other animals with the bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, characterized by symptoms such as skin lesions and arthritis in mammals and septicemia in fowl. Humans who become infected with the bacterium from handling infected animals or animal products can develop erysipeloid.
American Heritage Medicine

Origin of Erysipelas

  • Middle English erisipila from Latin erysipelas from Greek erusipelas erusi- red reudh- in Indo-European roots -pelas skin pel-3 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ἐρυσίπελας (erusipelas).

    From Wiktionary

Erysipelas Sentence Examples

  • Gout and erysipelas had, it is said,i ruined his constitution, and he died at his palace in Shimran on the 4th of September.

  • The diseases to which the act applies are smallpox, cholera, membranous croup, erysipelas, scarlatina or scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid, enteric, relapsing, continued or puerperal fever, and any other infectious disease to which the act has been applied by the local authority of the district in the prescribed manner.

  • Uses For the active immunization of sows, gilts, boars and growing pigs as an aid in the control of swine erysipelas.

  • A rash described as an erythema (skin reddening) resembling erysipelas accompanies FMF attacks in a minority of people.

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