Pathol. [mod.L., a. Gr. ἔκθλῡμα, f. ἐκθύειν ‘to break out as heat or humours’ (Liddell & Scott). ‘By some it is looked upon as the same as Impetigo’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1834. M. Good, Study of Med. (ed. 4), IV. 497. In Ecthyma the pustules are seldom numerous.
Hence Ecthymatous a.
1861. Bumstead, Ven. Dis. (1879), 359. The ecthymatous form is nothing more than a chancroid.
