ecthyma
/ek-thuh-muh, ek-thahy-/US // ˈɛk θə mə, ɛkˈθaɪ- //UK // (ˈɛkθɪmə) //
异物,异物癖,异物症,异物感
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Veterinary Pathology.
- : a contagious viral disease of sheep and goats and occasionally of humans, marked by vesicular and pustular lesions on the lips.
Examples
How would you differentiate the large flat-pustular syphiloderm from ecthyma?
Yet these cases were discriminated from smallpox; they were diagnosed, and have been recorded, as an epidemic of ecthyma.
In ecthyma the pustules are generally of the size of a split pea, and surrounded at their base by a broad halo of redness.
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