impetigo (im-pet-i'go)

The pustular and vesicular lesions produced in the skin by infection with the common pus organism. bathhouse i., football i. The disease occurring in football-players or among the users of public bathhouses, from the use of infected towels. Bockhart's i. A variety of i. in which the lesions occur around hairs, producing primarily tense, globular, yellowish pustules, varying in size from minute pustules up to those as large as a pea. i. bullosa. A variety of i. in which the lesions consist mostly of bullae. Other varieties are: i. circinata, i. contagiosa,, i. figurata, i. simplex, i. staphylococcus, i. streptococcus, i. vulgar is, porrigo contagiosa. [Lat., impetere, to attack.]