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pustulosis vacciniformis acuta (medicine) and dactylogryposis (medicine)


pustulosis vacciniformis acuta (medicine)


pustulosis vacciniformis acuta -->
eczema herpeticum


A febrile condition caused by cutaneous dissemination of herpesvirus type 1, occurring most commonly in children, consisting of a widespread eruption of vesicles rapidly becoming umbilicated pustules; clinically indistinguishable from a generalised vaccinia. The two may be distinguished by electron microscopy or demonstration of inclusion bodies in smears, which are intranuclear in eczema herpeticum and intracytoplasmic in eczema vaccinatum.

Synonym: pustulosis vacciniformis acuta.


dactylogryposis (medicine)


dactylogryposis
Contraction of the fingers.

Origin: dactylo-+ G. Gryposis, a crooking