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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

serpigineux

(Med.)

Creeping; – said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.

Adj.

[L. from serpo, to creep.] A kind of herpes or tetter; called in popular language, a ringworm.

serpiginous ‎(not comparable)