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‖ serpigo|sɜːˈpaɪgəʊ| Pl. serpigines |sɜːˈpɪdʒɪniːz|, serpigoes. Also 6–7 sarpego, 7 sapego. [med.L. serpīgo, f. serpĕre to creep; cf. herpes.] A general term (cf. herpes) for creeping or spreading skin diseases; spec. ringworm.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lxiii (1495) 278 Serpigo is a drye scabbe.] c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 194 Serpigo is a scharpnes of a mannes skyn, & it is clepid serpigo, for it passiþ fro place to place. 1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters L ij b, The..Serpigines that is drye and small scabbes and spottys. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 31 The Gowt, Sapego, and the Rheume. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 651 Carbuncles, Tetters, Serpigoes, and such like. 1637Heywood Royall King iii. xi, Be all his body..with the Sarpego dry'd. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. 677 Ulcers, Serpigines, Scall'd-Heads. 1799Underwood Dis. Childhood (ed. 4) II. 25 Herpes Exedens, or Serpigo. |