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Erysipelas(medicine)
Erysipelas(health)
erysipelas(dictionary)
phlegmonous erysipelas(medicine)
erysipelas pustulosum(medicine)
erysipelas verrucosum(medicine)
erysipelas internum(medicine)
ambulant erysipelas(medicine)
surgical erysipelas(medicine)

Erysipelas (medicine)


erysipelas
<dermatology> An acute superficial form of cellulitis involving the dermal lymphatics, usually caused by infection with group A streptococci and chiefly characterised by a peripherally spreading hot, bright red, oedematous, brawny, infiltrated and sharply circumscribed plaque with a raised indurated border. Formerly called St. Anthony's fire.

Compare: cellulitis, phlegmon.