ecthyma

noun Veterinary Pathology.

1. a contagious viral disease of sheep and goats and occasionally of humans, marked by vesicular and pustular lesions on the lips.

noun

1. pathol a local inflammation of the skin characterized by flat ulcerating pustules

n.

1. A pyogenic infection of the skin due to staphylococci or streptococci and characterized by adherent crusts beneath which ulceration occurs.