Relating to, characterized by, or affected with dartre or a similar skin disease; having an eruptive or spreading skin condition.
From 'dartre' plus '-ous' (suffix meaning 'having the quality of' or 'full of'), creating an adjective describing the affected state.
Before modern medicine understood what caused these conditions, doctors noticed they *spread*—and gave them names suggesting motion or rapid movement!
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