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pyoderma

noun

pyoderma is a noun meaning “An infection of the skin by pyogenic bacteria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-Y-O-D-E-R-M-A, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pyoderma is pyodermas or pyodermata.

What does pyoderma mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An infection of the skin by pyogenic bacteria.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of pyoderma

  • pyodermas plural
  • pyodermata plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is pyoderma?

Pyoderma appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does pyoderma come from?

From pyo- + -derma.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).