Erysipelas

Definition: Erysipelas

Erysipelas

Noun

1. An acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes.

Date "erysipelas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references)

Etymology: Erysipelas \Er`y*sip"e*las\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression 'erysi`pelas; 'eryqro`s red pe`lla hide, skin. See Red, and Pell, noun.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Botanical	An infection of the skin with streptococci. Treated with Bixa, boerhaavia, Browallila, Caesalpinia, Calophyllum, Dorstenia, Gliricidia, Hamelia, Hibiscus, Hura, Indigofera, Iresine, Jacaranda, Pedilanthus, Plumbago, Porophyllum, Portulaca, Pothomorphe, Solanum, Thespesia, Vitis. (references)
Health	An acute infection of the skin caused by species of streptococcus. This disease most frequently affects infants, young children, and the elderly. Characteristics include pink-to-red lesions that spread rapidly and are warm to the touch. The commonest site of involvement is the face. (references)
Medicine	An acute, spreading, febrile disease characterized by inflammation of the skin, subcutaneous tissues and mucous membranes, due to infection of the lymph spaces of the corium and underlying parts by Streptococcus erysipelatis. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Erysipelas

English words defined with "erysipelas": Erysipelatoid, Erysipelatous ♦ Saint Anthony's fire. (references)

Specialty definitions using "erysipelas": CLIBADIUM, CLIBADIUM ASPERUM, CLIBADIUM SURINAMENSE, CLIBADIUM SYLVESTRE, CLIDEMIA, CORNUTIA GRANDIFOLIA ♦ GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM, GNAPHALIUM ELEGANS, GNAPHALIUM SPICATUM, GNETUM LEYBOLDII ♦ MONTRICHARDIA ARBORESCENS ♦ Santa Maria, Swine Erysipelas. (references)

Etymologies containing "erysipelas": Erysipelatoid. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Erysipelas" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (erysipelas), Dutch (erysipelas).

"Erysipelas" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Erysipelas" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	12	101,599

Expression using "erysipelas": swine erysipelas. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "erysipelas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		belroos. (various references)

Albanian		erizipelë, të kuqtë e madh. (various references)

Arabic		‏الحمرة التهاب جلدي. (various references)

Bulgarian		червен вятър (the rose), еризипел. (various references)

Chinese		丹�' . (various references)

Czech		infekèní onemocnìní kùže. (various references)

Danish		erysipelas (diamond(-skin)disease, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae infection, red fever, red soldier, swine erysipelas, swine rose). (various references)

Dutch		wondroos, erysipelas, belroos. (various references)

Esperanto		erizipelo. (various references)

Faeroese		rósin. (various references)

Finnish		sikaruusu (diamond(-skin)disease, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae infection, red fever, red soldier, swine erysipelas, swine rose). (various references)

French		érysipèles, érysipèle, érésipèle. (various references)

German		rose (adductor, burr, compass card, rose, rose window, topside), wundrose, Rotlauf (diamond(-skin)disease, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae infection, red fever, red soldier, swine erysipelas, swine rose), Erysipel. (various references)

Greek		ερυσιπέλας, ερυσίπελασ, ανεμοπύρωμα. (various references)

Hungarian		orbánc. (various references)

Italian		erisipela (diamond(-skin)disease, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae infection, red fever, red soldier, swine erysipelas, swine rose). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		丹�' . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		た�"どく (absorption in reading, independence, single, sole, solo). (various references)

Manx		rose (ceiling rose, rose). (various references)

Pig Latin		erysipelasay

Portuguese		erisipela (erythema, wildfire). (various references)

Romanian		erizipel (rose). (various references)

Russian		рожа (clock, physiognomy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		erizipelas. (various references)

Spanish		erisipela. (various references)

Swedish		ros (praise, rose). (various references)

Thai		โรคผิวหนังที่ร้ายแรงชนิ�"หนึ่งมีการอาเจียนและไข้สูงร่วม�"้วย เกิ�"จากเชื้อแบคทีเรียสเตรป�. (various references)

Turkish		yılancık (rose). (various references)

Ukranian		бешиха (wildfire). (various references)

Welsh		ta+n iddwf. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "erysipelas": erysipelases. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Erysipelas" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: erysipela. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "erysipelas" (pronounced 'Er`y*sip"e*las'): Alas, Bolas, Chasselas, Cyclas, Dowlas, Pallas, Pholas, Proatlas, Pulas. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-p-r-s-s-y"
	-1 letter: espaliers.
	-2 letters: espalier, paisleys, parsleys, pleasers, realises, relapses, sparsely, spielers, yearlies.
	-3 letters: airless, aperies, asperse, aspires, earless, elapses, espials, essayer, ireless, lapises, lapsers, leapers, leasers, lipases, lispers, paisley, palsies, pareses, paresis, parises, parleys, parsley, pelisse, pessary, players, pleaser, pleases, praises, presale, rayless, realise, relapse, repeals, replays, replies, resails, resales, reseals, resiles, sailers, sealers.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-p-r-s-s-y"
	+2 letters: erysipelases, persuasively.
	+3 letters: hyperrealisms, presbyterials.
	+4 letters: supersexuality.
	+5 letters: hypersalinities, hyperstimulates.
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