impetigo /im·pe·ti·go/ (im″pĕ-ti´go) [L.]
1. impetigo contagiosa; a streptococcal or staphylococcal skin infection marked by vesicles that become pustular, rupture and form yellow crusts.impetig´inous
2. i. bullosa.
impetigo bullo´sa , bullous impetigo impetigo in which the developing vesicles progress to form large bullae, which collapse and become covered with crusts.
impetigo contagio´sa impetigo (1).
impetigo herpetifor´mis a very rare, acute dermatitis with symmetrically ringed, pustular lesions, occurring chiefly in pregnant women and associated with severe constitutional symptoms.
impetigo neonato´rum impetigo bullosa of newborn infants.
impetigo ne·o·na·to·rum (n   -n -tôr  m)n. A skin disorder in infants characterized by widely disseminated bullous lesions appearing soon after birth and caused by staphylococcal infection, occasionally complicated by streptococcal infection. Also called dermatitis exfoliativa infantum, pemphigus gangrenosus. |
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