A noncontagious inflammation of the skin, characterized chiefly by redness, itching, and the outbreak of lesions that may discharge serous matter and become encrusted and scaly.
ETYMOLOGY:
New Latin, from Greek ekzema, from ekzein, to break out, boil over : ek-, out; see ecto– + zein, to boil; see yes- in Appendix I.
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