Definitions for ecthyma

ecthyma ec·thy·ma

Spelling: [ek-thuh-muh, ek-thahy-]
IPA: /ˈɛk θə mə, ɛkˈθaɪ-/

Ecthyma is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in ecthyma (acehmty).

Definitions for ecthyma

noun

  1. a contagious viral disease of sheep and goats and occasionally of humans, marked by vesicular and pustular lesions on the lips.

Origin of ecthyma

1825-35; Greek ékthȳma pustule, equivalent to ek- ec- + thȳ́(ein) to be angry + -ma noun suffix

Examples for ecthyma

How would you differentiate the large flat-pustular syphiloderm from 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.

Yet these cases were discriminated from smallpox; they were diagnosed, and have been recorded, as an epidemic of ecthyma.

Word Value for ecthyma
Scrable

17

Words with friends

17

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