How to Use cellulitis in a Sentence

cellulitis

noun

• There were abscesses on her forehead and arm and cellulitis on her leg.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 27 July 2017
• Now is not the time to willingly put yourself at risk of infections, like staph and cellulitis.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 24 Apr. 2020
• When a spider bite turns into cellulitis—a common (and painful) skin infection—a rash begins to spread around the wound, and the skin becomes painful and hot to the touch.
  — Emilia Benton, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
• Abscesses are known to be filled with pus and cellulitis causes redness, swelling and pain.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• The 42-year-old rock star is suffering from a staph infection and the skin infection known as cellulitis, in addition to the clots.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2018
• Other conditions, like rosacea or cellulitis, can cause the rash.
  — Sara Coughlin, Health, 17 May 2023
• The shells sliced up his feet, and cellulitis, a bacterial infection, set in.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• There are three main complications that can arise from bites: cellulitis, blisters, and swelling.
  — Emilia Benton, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
• That occurred in his third game back after being sidelined three games with cellulitis in his right elbow.
  — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• The most devastating side effect is my left foot and ankle swell to twice their size and turn bright red — a condition called cellulitis.
  — Joyce Rudolph, latimes.com, 3 June 2019
• The dangerous aspect of cellulitis isn’t so much the bacteria itself, but the body’s reaction to it.
  — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 26 July 2019
• Four games after returning, his foot rubbing against his skate caused cellulitis, which put him in the hospital for a couple of days.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
• Barker was then readmitted to the hospital that year due to a staph infection and cellulitis.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 June 2022
• If left untreated, cellulitis spreads rapidly to your lymph nodes, which can be life-threatening.
  — Ashley Martens, Women's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• These are two symptoms of facial cellulitis, a type of facial infection.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2023
• Women around the world are showing off their stretch marks, cellulitis, postpartum bodies, and now, armpit hair, without editing or hiding them.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• At the end of February, Jessie, suffering from congestive heart failure and cellulitis, returned to the hospital for the third time since December.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 3 May 2020
• While not a typical reaction, the breach in skin integrity from the tick bite can result in a bacterial skin infection called cellulitis, which can cause spreading redness, swelling, and pain from the site of the bite.
  — Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 26 May 2023
• Less often, but more worrisome is that the infection can expand, such as with impetigo or cellulitis, and can seed into the bloodstream with the potential to cause sepsis.
  — Judy Schaechter, M.d., miamiherald, 29 May 2018
• The infant was admitted to an unnamed Florida hospital with a rash and cellulitis, according to the report.
  — Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2022
• After being hospitalized with cellulitis in his foot during spring training in 2008, Kawano was forced to retire the following April.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
• But Jay continued to be in and out of hospital not just for cellulitis, but also for a broken hip, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and then Parkinson's.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 21 June 2019
• But Lee refused to leave, leaning on his nursing training to demand specific treatments for cellulitis and other symptoms.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2023
• The 76ers power forward had been sidelined since Sunday with cellulitis, a bacterial infection, in his right elbow.
  — Keith Pompey, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• One possible source was cellulitis, a problem that’s literally skin deep.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• As a matter of fact, walking around with wet feet can lead to health issues like cellulitis, a bacterial skin infection that can enter through a crack or break in your skin, according to Suzanne Levine, a Podiatric foot surgeon and author.
  — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2023
• Many of the infections have been due to Aeromonas bacteria, which live in brackish water and can cause severe skin reactions ranging from mild cellulitis — red, swollen and painful skin — to necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating disease.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Staph, cellulitis, and blood clots are all potentially serious conditions that can be deadly if left untreated.
  — Lynsey Eidell, SELF, 20 June 2018
• On a second trip to a hospital's emergency room, doctors diagnosed cellulitis.
  — Cleve Wootson, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
• In addition to keeping his mom company, Jake has spent his fair share of time in a hospital with recurring bouts of periorbital cellulitis, a painful eye infection that kept him hospitalized at one point for five days.
  — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024