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‖ impetigo|ɪmpɪˈtaɪgəʊ|
Pl. impetigines |-ˈɪdʒɪniːz|.
[L. impetīgo, f. impetĕre to assail, attack: cf. vertigo.]
A name given to various pustular diseases of the skin, and in pl. to such diseases in general.
Most of the diseases now so called are non-febrile and non-contagious; but impetigo contagiosa is an acute contagious disease with febrile symptoms.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lxiii. (1495) 278 Impetigo is a drye scabbe that comyth of more rysynge and fyry matere than Serpigo. 1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters A ij, The same water withdryveth impetigines. 1669Addr. hopeful yng. Gentry Eng. 20 The scrofulæ and luxuriant impetigos of fowl humors. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 565 The leprosy of the Romans before the time of Cicero was the impetigo. 1876Duhring Dis. Skin 78 Vesico-pustules are seen in..contagious impetigo. |