Path. [L. favus honeycomb.] A contagious disease of the skin, characterized by pustules, so called from its resemblance to a honeycomb. Also attrib.
[1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VII. iii. (1495), 223. Constantine callyth suche a scabbe fauum, an hony combe, for suche whelkes haue smalle holes, out of whiche matter comyth as hony out of the hony combe.]
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Favus … an Ulcer, mattery Sore, or Scab.
1806. Med. Jrnl., XV. 168. The favus, when it happens on the face, and the vesications behind the ears, often arise from the same cause.
1884. Syd. Soc. Lex., Favus, a contagious disease of the skin.
