impetigo
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noun
- A contagious bacterial skin disease forming pustules and yellow crusty sores, chiefly on the face and hands. It is common in children and infection is often through cuts or insect bites.
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Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō, from impetĕre (literally “to rush upon, assail, attack”).
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