dermatitis

(dur-ma-ti'(te')tis) [G. derma i derm at-), skin, + -it is.] Inflammation of the skin, blastomyce'tic d., cutaneous blastomycosis.* d. sestiva'lis [L. cBstivus, the advent of hot weather, d. ambustio'nis [L. ambustio, a scorching], inflammation of the skin resulting from the action of heat. d. artefac'ta, feigned eruptions, inflammation of the skin caused by the application of various irritants, d. atrophic ans, a diffuse idiopathic atrophy of the skin, involving the appendages, d. blastomycot'ica, blastomycosis, d. cal or'ica, d. am busti on is. d. coccidioi'des, a form of blastomycosis the fungus of which multiplies by sporulation without budding, d. combustio'nis, in flamm amation of the skin following a bum. d. congelatio'nis, frostbite, chilblain, d. contusifor'mis [L. resembling contusions], erythema nodosum. d. Ditropeno'tus aureovir'idis, straw itch.* d. epidem'ica, Savill's disease, an acute contagious disease marked by a vesicular dermatitis followed by desquamation it is accompanied with more or le severe constitutional symptoms, coniunctivitis, pharyngitis, and enlargement of,the cervical glands it may terminate fatally especially '