papulopustule

English

Etymology

papule +‎ -o- +‎ pustule.

Noun

papulopustule (plural papulopustules)

1. (medicine) A small, raised, semisolid skin lesion, representing an intermediate stage between a papule and a pustule.
   • 1893, James Nevins Hyde, A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners:

     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.

   • 1896, Twentieth century practice:

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

   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

   • 1998, John C. Maize, Cutaneous Pathology:

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

   • 2012, G. Plewig, A.M. Kligman, ACNE and ROSACEA, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 158:

     An old closed comedo has been shattered at various points along the epithelial lining and is now a papulopustule.

   • 2015, Mahmoud Sakr, Clinical Surgery, JP Medical Ltd, →ISBN, page 399:

     It is due to a true diphtheritic infection by Corynbacterium diphtheriae, which commences as a papulopustule; within a few days, the top of the papule becomes necrotic and an ulcer forms and the ulcer slowly enlarges, until it attains a diameter of 1–2 cm.

   • 2017, Jean L. Bolognia, Julie V. Schaffer, Lorenzo Cerroni, Dermatology E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN:

     The lesions of PG usually begin as a tender papulopustule with surrounding erythematous or violaceous induration, an erythematous nodule, or a bulla on a violaceous base; the papulopustule may be follicular.

Related terms

• papulopustular

Translations

skin lesion