Serpiginous, often referring to some chronic medical affliction, signifies it as slowly progressive or `creeping`, such as ringworm. Regarding skin ailments in particular, this means that such a disease leaves scar tissue below while continuing to affect the skin above. Serpiginous choroidopathy is an eye condition. The cause is unknown. The sym.....
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• (a.) Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.
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(sәr-pij´ĭ-nәs) creeping from part to part; having a wavy border.
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Ser·pig'i·nous adjective [ Confer French
serpigineux .]
(Medicine) Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ser-pij′i-nŭs Definitions: 1. Creeping; denoting an ulcer or other cutaneous lesion that extends with an arciform border; the margin has a wavy or serpentine border.
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A term used to describe the shape or spread of lesions that have a wavy or serpent-like pattern.
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