pustu- +
(Latin: blister, pimple)
acropustulosis
Pustular (small circumscribed elevation of the skin, containing purulent material) eruptions of the hands and feet, often a form of psoriasis.
papulopustular
A reference to an eruption composed of papules and pustules.
pustulant
1. Causing pustules.
2. An agent that produces the formation of pustules.
pustular
A reference to, or characterized by, pustules.
pustulate
1. To form pustules or blisters.
2. Blemished by imperfections of the skin; such as, being covered with small pustular or blister-like elevations.
pustulation
1. The development of pustules.
2. Breaking out into pustules.
pustule (s), pustules (pl)
1. A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.
2. A small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus.
3. A small elevation of the skin filled with lymph or pus.
Pustules may be circumscribed, flat, rounded, or umbilicated.
pustulocrustaceous
Characterized by the formation of pustules and crusts.
pustulosis
1. A generalized eruption of pustules.
2. A highly inflammatory skin condition resulting in large fluid-filled blister-like areas (pustules).
Pustulosis typically occurs on the palms of the hands and/or the soles of the feet. The skin of these areas peels and flakes (exfoliates).
pustulous
1. Full of pustules or pimples.
2. Resembling, or covered with, pustules; pustulate; pustular.
Word families with similar applications about: "decay, rotten; wasting away; putrid, pus" word units:
phthisio- (decay, waste away);
puro- (pus);
pus (viscous fluid via an infection);
putre- (rotten, decayed);
pyo- (pus; purulent);
sapro- (rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay);
sepsi- (decay, rot, putrefactive);
suppurant- (festering, forming or discharging pus);
tabe- (wasting away, decaying).
Cross references directly, or indirectly, involving the "skin":
callus-;
chorio-;
cicatri- (scar);
cori-;
cuti-;
hymen-;
lepido- (scab, scale);
papulo- (pimple);
psoro- (itch, mange);
rhytid- (wrinkle);
scabio- (mange, itchy);
sebo- (grease, oil).
Cross references of word groups that are related, partially or extensively, to: "blister, bump, swelling":
bull-;
ichor-;
papulo-;
pemphig-;
puro-;
pus-;
pyo-;
suppurant-;
tum-;
vesico-;
vesiculo-.
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