different between cellulitis vs erysipelas

English

Noun

cellulitis (countable and uncountable, plural cellulitides or cellulitises)

1. An inflammation of subcutaneous or connective tissue caused by a bacterial infection

English

Alternative forms

• erisypelas (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English erisipila, borrowed from Latin erysipelas, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (erusípelas), probably related to ??????? (eruthrós, “red”) and ????? (pélma, “the sole of a foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??.???s?p.?l.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???.??s?p.?l.?s/, /???.??s?p.l?s/, /???.??s?p.?l.?s/, /???.??s?p.l?s/

Noun

erysipelas (countable and uncountable, plural erysipelases)

1. (medicine) 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.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “erysipelas”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “erysipelas”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????????? (erusípelas), probably related to ??????? (eruthrós, “red”) and ????? (pélma, “the sole of a foot”) or pellis (“a skin, hide, felt, pelt”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e.ry?si.pe.las/, [????s??p???äs?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.ri?si.pe.las/, [??i?s?i?p?l?s]

Noun

erysipelas n (genitive erysipelatos); third declension

1. (medicine) erysipelas

Inflection

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant, neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Descendants

• ? English: erysipelas
• Middle English: erisipila