ec'zema

[G. ekzeo, I boil over.] Salt rheum, tetter; an inflammation of the skin, of acute or chronic nature, presenting multiform lesions, moist or dry, and often accompanied with itching, burning, and various paresthesias, e. crus to's tun, a variety in which crusts form oyer the lesions. e. epizoot'icum, foot-and-mouth disease.* e. erythema to's um, a dry form of e. marked by more or le extensive areas of redne with scaly desquamation, e. fis's um, a form in which the skin is cracked and fi ured e. hypertroph'icum, e. marked by papillary hypertrophy of the skin. e. infan'tile, a form of e. affecting chiefly the cheeks and forehead, occurring in infants, e. intertri'go, see intertrigo, e. mad'idans [L. madid us, moist], weeping e., e. vesiculosum. e. margin a'tum, tinea cruris, e. neurit'icum, a. form due to inflammation of the trophic nerves and limited to the area supplied by the affected nerves, e. papulo's um, a. dermatitis marked by an eruption of discrete or aggregated reddish papules which soon become excoriated, e. pustulo's um, a later stage of vesicular e., in which the vesicles become purulent, rupture, and discharge a sticky, crusting seropurulent fluid, e. ru'brum, a stage of vesicular e., presenting red, excoriated, weeping areas, c. sclero's um, keratosis, e. seborrhce'icum, e. seborrho'icum, dermatitis seborrhoeic a. e. sola're, prickly heat. B. squamo's um, a form of dry scaly e. c. tubercula'tum, mycosis fungoides. c. vesiculo's um, dermatitis marked by an eruption of vesicles upon erythematous patches, which rupture and exude a sticky serum.