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单词 erysipelas
释义

erysipelas

/ˌɛrɪˈsɪpɪləs /
noun [mass noun] Medicine
An acute, sometimes recurrent disease caused by a bacterial infection, characterized by large raised red patches on the skin.
  • This is caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a Gram-positive coccus.
Common skin infections include cellulitis, erysipelas, impetigo, folliculitis, and furuncles and carbuncles....
  • It was this analogy that drove him on to study cholera, anthrax, erysipelas and finally rabies, culminating in the development of the rabies vaccine.
  • Billroth, a German surgeon, is credited with first identifying, in 1874, streptococci isolated from a patient with erysipelas, which was a very common disease in that time, but rare today.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek erusipelas; perhaps related to eruthros 'red' and pella 'skin'.

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