The actual cautery is best for serpiginous corneal ulcers, carbolic acid being more satisfactory for those of the vesicular type.
From the vulva they may extend to the perineum or pursue a serpiginouscourse down the thighs.
They may follow a reddened and hyperæsthetic condition of the cutaneous tissues, or they may be surrounded by a serpiginous border of this character.
They are much deeper than secondary ulcers, sanious at bottom, often serpiginous in configuration, and apt to extend in depth as well as in superficies, sometimes penetrating through and through the organ.
Such ulcers are usually round or oval in shape, but their contours may be irregular from the coalescence of two or more ulcers or from serpiginous growth.
When the eruption spreads at the border, clearing up at the older part; as, for instance, in the serpiginous syphiloderm.
It may also present the appearance of a serpiginous lupus vulgaris or syphiloderm.
Several groups may coalesce, and a serpiginous tract result (serpiginous tubercular syphiloderm).
In one case a remarkable symmetrical serpiginous ulceration developed in the area of distribution of the cutaneous branches of the external popliteal nerve on the outer side of the leg.
Bed-sores in sacral region developed during the first two days, and seventeen days later well-developed serpiginous trophic sores developed on the outer side of each leg and continued to increase slowly until death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serpiginous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
