Serpiginous

Word SERPIGINOUS
Character 11
Hyphenation ser pig i nous
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Serpiginous"

What do we mean by serpiginous?

Of or being a skin lesion with a wavy or indented margin. adjective

Affected with serpigo.

In medicine, noting certain affections which creep, as it were, from one part to another: as, serpiginous erysipelas.

Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another. adjective

Creeping, advancing adjective

Creeping, advancing

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The word "serpiginous" in example sentences

Bristol — a common prostitute, sir, who had got all the worst symptoms of the disorder; such as nodi, tophi, and gummata, verruca, cristoe Galli, and a serpiginous eruption, or rather a pocky itch all over her body. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Some fingers of it had even spread up onto his cheeks in a serpiginous margin. ❋ Cook, Robin, 1940- (2000)

Bed-sores in sacral region developed during the first two days, and seventeen days later well-developed serpiginous trophic sores developed on the outer side of each leg and continued to increase slowly until death. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

In one case a remarkable symmetrical serpiginous ulceration developed in the area of distribution of the cutaneous branches of the external popliteal nerve on the outer side of the leg. ❋ George Henry Makins (N/A)

A rodent ulcer was eating its way upwards, coiling on in its serpiginous fashion until the end of it was flush with her collar. ❋ Unknown (1894)

The ulcers have seldom the typically rounded or serpiginous outline of gummatous ulcers on other parts of the body. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

When the eruption spreads at the border, clearing up at the older part; as, for instance, in the serpiginous syphiloderm. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

The patch may consist, therefore, of small, discrete, punched-out ulcers, or of one or more continuous ulcers, segmented, crescentic or serpiginous in shape. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

Several groups may coalesce, and a serpiginous tract result ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

It may also present the appearance of a serpiginous lupus vulgaris or syphiloderm. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

The ova are deposited in the skin, develop and give rise to the formation of furuncle-like tumors with central aperture, through which a sanious discharge exudes; or as the result of the burrowing of the larvæ, irregular serpiginous lines or wheals are produced. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

An upper endoscopy revealed an extensive serpiginous midesophageal ulcer in the presence of a normal squamocolumnar junction and biopsies from the edges and center of the lesion disclosed no neoplasia or infectious causes but a dense acute inflammatory infiltrate. ❋ Umit Akyuz (2010)

Erythema marginatum This is an evanescent, erythematous, non-pruritic rash with pale centers and rounded or serpiginous margins. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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