Affected with or relating to erysipelas; characterized by the symptoms of this acute skin infection.
From erysipelas with the suffix -ous meaning 'full of' or 'having qualities of.' This less common variant of erysipelatous appears in older medical literature describing erysipelas-related conditions.
English medical language is full of synonym variations—erysipelatous, erysipelous, and erysipelatic all mean similar things, showing how medical terminology evolved messily before standardization committees cleaned things up!
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