erysipeloid
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English
Etymology
From erysipelas + -oid.
Adjective
erysipeloid (not comparable)
- (medicine) Resembling erysipelas.
- 1860, John Erichsen, The Science and Art of Surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases, and Operations, Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, page 468:
- The diffuse phlebitis is an erysipeloid form of the disease, often running for a considerable distance along the coat of the vein, which becomes thickened, pulpy, and red, without adhesions forming, or the blood coagulating; indeed, in these cases there appears to be a great want of plasticity in this fluid.
Noun
erysipeloid (countable and uncountable, plural erysipeloids)
- (pathology, usually uncountable) A mild cutaneous infection by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in humans that resembles erysipelas.
- Synonym: fish poisoning
- (medicine, countable) A cutaneous cancer metastasis, most commonly associated with breast carcinoma, presenting as an erythematous patch or plaque that resembles erysipelas.
- Synonym: carcinoma erysipeloides