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