papulopustule

plural papulopustules

1. medicineA small, raised, semisolid skin lesion, representing an intermediate stage between a papule and a pustule.

   The primary lesion appears to be a papulopustule which affects the follicle.

   1995, Neal S. Penneys, Skin Manifestations Of Aids, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 160

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   According to Boeck, the hue of the papulopustule is due to minute capillary hæmorrhages, which later become invisible in consequence of the tumefaction of the overlying integument.

   1893, James Nevins Hyde, A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners

   The most common of the eruptive symptoms induced are papulopustule lesions usually discrete, rarely confluent, seen on the face, neck, shoulders, and upper extremities.

   1896, Twentieth century practice

   Accidental inoculation of an abrasion, cut or open follicle of the skin with virus from a dead body may give rise to the rapid production at the site of poisoning of vesico-papule, papulopustule, furuncle, tubercle, wart or hemorrhagic bleb; or there may be little or no local disturbance, with a rapid development of septicæmia or glandular enlargement.

   1902, Henry M. Dearborn, Diseases of the skin: their symptomatology, etiology and diagnosis, with special reference to principles of treatment including full indications for drug remedies

   The area is covered with a watchglass held in place by a bandage; in a positive case a papulopustule will develop within 24 to 72 hours, and it will then be easy to demonstrate Ducrey bacilli.

   1976, Günter Waldemar Korting, R. Denk, Differential diagnosis in dermatology, W.B. Saunders Company

   Pyoderma gangrenosum begins as a small papulopustule that expands to form nodules and plaques.

   1998, John C. Maize, Cutaneous Pathology