Usually means: Skin infection caused by bacteria.
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  3. erysipelas: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. erysipelas: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  15. erysipelas: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  1. erysipelas: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (erysipelas)

noun:  (pathology) An acute, sometimes recurrent febrile disease caused by infection of a hemolytic streptococcus, associated with intense edematous local inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissues, and marked by large raised red patches on the skin.

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