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Webster 1913 Edition

Tetter

Tet′ter

,
Noun.
[OE.
teter
, AS.
teter
,
tetr
; akin to G.
zitter
,
zitter
mal, OHG.
zittar
och, Skr.
dadru
,
dadruka
, a sort of skin disease. √63, 240.]
(Med.)
A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See
Herpes
.
Honeycomb tetter
(Med.)
,
favus.
–
Moist tetter
(Med.)
,
eczema.
–
Scaly tetter
(Med.)
,
psoriasis.
–
Tetter berry
(Bot.)
,
the white bryony.

Tet′ter

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tettered
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tettering
.]
To affect with tetter.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tetter

TET'TER

,
Noun.
[L. titillo.]
1.
In medicine, a common name of several cutaneous diseases, consisting of an eruption of vesicles or pustules, in distinct or confluent clusters, spreading over the body in various directions and hardening into scabs or crusts. It includes the shingles, ring-worm, milky scale (crusta lactea.) scald head, &c.
2.
In farriery, a cutaneous disease of animals, of the ring-worm kind, which spreads on the body in different directions, and occasions a troublesome itching.

TET'TER

,
Verb.
T.
To affect with the disease called tetters.

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