Crossword-Solution: IMPETIGO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Impetigo | n. | A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever; usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “IMPETIGO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Childhood skin affliction | 1 answer |
| Contagious skin disease that's most commonly found in children | 1 answer |
| school sores | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZMAEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with IMPETIGO (5)
Typhus has a mouse-like odor, and the following diseases have at different times been described as having peculiar odors,--measles, the smell of freshly plucked feathers; scarlatina, of bread hot from the oven; eczema and impetigo, the smell of mold; and rupia, a decidedly offensive odor.
Properly applied, however, the water had been found to relieve the gout, the discomforts of child-bearing, leprosy, irritation of the mucous membrane of the nose, impetigo, strabismus and ophthalmia.
The milder sort, or impetigo, as I apprehend it to be, is very common among the inhabitants of Nias, great numbers of whom are covered with a white scurf or scales that renders them loathsome to the sight.
The predisposing cause of impetigo is nutritive debility, and the exciting causes are irritation, impure air, and errors of diet.
Various skin diseases are regarded as local expressions of, or as being materially modified by, the scrofulous diathesis, as eczema, impetigo, and lupus.
Quotes with IMPETIGO (1)
I suppose you’re young,’ she conceded, managing once again to make youth sound like impetigo
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2008).