- A skin infection - Contagious skin disease - School sores - Skin disease - Skin infection - A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever;
usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation.
- Vaccination - The act or art of inoculating trees or plants. - The act or practice of communicating a disease to a
person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh. - Fig.: The communication of principles, especially
false principles, to the mind.
- St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with
a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a
single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually
regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically.
- Chronic infectious disease - Communicable disease - Hansen’s disease - A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as
reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These
are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent
nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the
disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition
there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails,
and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and
joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.
- Acute throat infection - Contagious disease - A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air
passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false
membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation.
Cf. Group.
- Listen up! Eggs, ma, give me a rash - Skin disease - Virus causing cold sores - An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to
its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in
small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling,
including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its
tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another.