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(medicine, dermatology) A form of alopecia in which hair is lost from various areas of the body.
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(medicine, dermatology) Loss of hair from the entire scalp, with normal hair elsewhere on the body remaining.
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(medicine, dermatology) Hair loss occurring at the hairline, usually resulting from friction or trauma but occasionally from seborrheic dermatitis.
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(medicine, dermatology) Loss of hair due to systemic or psychological causes.
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(medicine, dermatology) Loss of hair from the entire scalp and face.
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(medicine, dermatology) The formation of a club hair as part of the cessation phase of the hair growth cycle.
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The disease caused by such an infestation
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The visual identification of parasites in feces
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(parasitology) A skin disease caused by the movement of certain species of ancylostomatids under the skin.
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(medicine) A condition caused by poisonous plants in the genus Crotalaria.
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scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis
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A disorder characterized by dark crusty patches on the skin, sometimes containing pus.
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(pathology) borreliosis of the skin
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(medicine, rare) A fear of skin disease.
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(pathology) A psychiatric disorder characterized by the urge to eat one's own skin
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(pathology) A disorder that includes dental problems, trichodysplasia, and nail and skin problems.
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(medicine, obsolete) Synonym of elephant leg
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(pathology) Any disease caused by endoparasites
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(pathology) a soft, non-cancerous growth, a form of granuloma, resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis.
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(medicine, dermatology) Loss of hair from the head or body due to a medical condition.
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Alternative form of hair loss [(medicine, dermatology) Loss of hair from the head or body due to a medical condition.]
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A disease of the hair where the hairs stand erect.
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A skin condition caused by iodides.
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(medicine) A brown pigmented spot on the skin.
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Having the appearance of the skin of one infected with leprosy; flaking, peeling, scabby, scurfy.
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(medicine) A chronic inflammatory skin disease, often affecting the genitals.
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(dermatology) A scale used for classifying female pattern baldness.
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(archaic) A disease of guinea pigs caused by eating deteriorated maize.
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A skin infection, caused by the fungus Trichophyton, consisting of an eruption of concentric rings of overlapping scales forming papulosquamous patches.
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(dermatology) A genetically predisposed loss of hair from the scalp in males, theorized to be caused by an excessive response to androgens, specifically dihydrotestosterone.
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(medicine) The characteristic situation where a patient with delusional parasitosis presents the doctor with a collection of fibers or other foreign objects supposedly retrieved from the skin.
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Synonym of dermatitis bullosa striata pratensis
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(pathology) A form of tuberculosis that is characterized by a wide dissemination into the human body and by the tiny size of the lesions (1-5 mm).
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(obsolete) A disease causing hairs to grow on the backs of children.
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(biology) Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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A skin condition characterized by soft, yellowish papules or cerebriform plaques, usually of the buttock or thigh, with a wrinkled rather than warty surface.
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Synonym of onchocerciasis
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(medicine, dated) phthiriasis
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A circumscribed, elevated, livid patch on the skin.
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(dermatology) Initialism of pyoderma fistulans sinifica. [(dermatology) A distinct chronic infectious disease in which epithelialized tracts form within the subdermal fatty tissue.]
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(medicine, obsolete) Synonym of phlyctidium
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One of the lesions in the skin disease pinta.
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(medicine) Synonym of tinea versicolor
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(medicine, now chiefly historical) A condition characterised by matted and unhygienic hair.
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Any of several infections, such as pharyngitis or tonsillitis, that resemble diphtheria but are caused by a different microorganism.
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A condition resembling folliculitis, usually caused by shaving.
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(pathology) Resembling psoriasis
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Someone who suffers from pseudoxanthoma elasticum.
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(pathology) A skin disease made more likely by excessive dampness that facilitates skin penetration by the infectious zoospores; a bacterial infection by Dermatophilus congolensis found mostly in ruminants.
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Synonym of strawberry tongue (“form of glossitis”)
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(medicine) Splitting of hairs at the ends; often called split ends.
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Alternative form of scleromyxedema [papular mucinosis, a rare skin disease]
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(rare) Any affliction of the skin dependent on scrofula.
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A person who has scrofula.
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A skin condition caused by tuberculous involvement of the skin by direct extension, usually from underlying tuberculous lymphadenitis.
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Obsolete spelling of scrofula [(pathology) A form of tuberculosis, most common in women 30-40 years of age, tending to cause enlarged and degenerated lymph nodes, especially in the neck, and often chronic, intractable skin inflammation as well.]
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(medicine) Of or pertaining to silicotuberculosis.
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A hyperkeratotic lesion on the scrotum, formerly associated with chimney sweeps.
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(pathology) tuberculosis
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(dermatology) A form of rapid hair loss, causing hair to fall out, caused by the rapid onset of the telogen phase of follicle growth.
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(pathology) athlete’s foot
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Alternative spelling of tinea versicolor [(medicine) A skin condition of a yeast infection causing discoloured patches on the trunk and proximal extremities.]
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(biology) The equivalent of bacteriostasis in toxoplasmas
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(medicine) A condition where the subject pulls their own hair out, causing bald patches.
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Alternative form of trichoclasis [(pathology) A brittle condition of the hair.]
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(medicine, rare) A trichomatose condition of the hair; plica.
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(medicine) Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; said of the hair when affected with plica.
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superficial bacterial colonization of the hair shafts in areas bearing sweat glands
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(medicine) A condition involving knots in the hair.
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Any disease of the hair.
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A hairshaft abnormality in which there is keratinization of the hairshaft in the keratogenous zone, allowing for intussusception of the fully keratinized and hard distal shaft into the incompletely keratinized and soft proximal portion of the shaft.
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A hairshaft defect characterized by thickening or weak points (nodes) that cause the hair to break off easily.
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(medicine) Any disease or abnormality of the hair.
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(medicine) A lesion associated with tuberculosis.
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Alternative form of typhlenteritis [typhlitis]
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Obsolete form of verruca. (wart) [(pathology) A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a human papilloma virus.]
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(South Africa) A scalp disease similar to favus, characterised by hair loss and white crust.
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Resembling herpes zoster
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