erysipeloid

English

Etymology

From erysipelas +‎ -oid.

Adjective

erysipeloid (not comparable)

1. (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)

1. (pathology, usually uncountable) A mild cutaneous infection by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in humans that resembles erysipelas.

   Synonym: fish poisoning

2. (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

Derived terms

• erysipeloid of Rosenbach

Translations

mild cutaneous infection by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae

• Polish: różyca (pl) f