pityriasis
Pathology. any of various skin diseases marked by the shedding of branlike scales of epidermis.
Veterinary Pathology. a skin disease in various domestic animals marked by dry scales.
Origin of pityriasis
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How to use pityriasis in a sentence
These skin conditions can include, among other things, hives, measles-like rashes and a full body rash similar to pityriasis rosea.
Why covid arm and other post-vaccine rashes might actually be a ‘good thing’ | Marlene Cimons | April 11, 2021 | Washington PostHow is pityriasis rosea distinguished from ringworm, psoriasis and the squamous syphiloderm?
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman StelwagonIt cures pityriasis, and renders the hair very soft, without drying it too much as is usually the case with soap.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines | T. H. Pardo de Taverapityriasis, a skin eruption attended with branlike desquamation.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia | Edited by Rev. James WoodThe skin disease pityriasis (tinea) versicolor was shown to be due to the Microsporon furfur by Eichstedt in 1846.
The Fundamentals of Bacteriology | Charles Bradfield Morrey
The only endemic for which the geographic history cannot be adequately explained is the monotypic pityriasis gymnocephala.
Birds from North Borneo | Max C. Thompson
British Dictionary definitions for pityriasis
/ (ˌpɪtəˈraɪəsɪs) /
any of a group of skin diseases characterized by the shedding of dry flakes of skin
a similar skin disease of certain domestic animals
Origin of pityriasis
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