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erysipelas /ˌɛrɪˈsɪpɪləs /noun [mass noun] MedicineAn 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'. |