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Webster 1913 Edition
Ichthyosis
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Ichˊthy-o′sis
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ἰχθύσ
fish.] (Med.)
A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; – called also
– fishskin
. Ichˊthy-ot′ic
(#)
, Adj.
Definition 2024
ichthyosis
ichthyosis
English
Noun
ichthyosis (countable and uncountable, plural ichthyoses)
- (pathology) A disease which gives the sufferer a dry, scaly skin.
- 1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’, Norton 2005, p. 1506:
- A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale-like affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly non-infective.
- 1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’, Norton 2005, p. 1506:
Translations
disease which gives the sufferer dry scaly skin
Derived terms
- dysplastic ichthyosis
- harlequin ichthyosis, harlequin type ichthyosis
- ichthyosis bullosa
- ichthyosis congenita
- ichthyosis fetalis
- ichthyosis hystrix
- ichthyosis vulgaris
- lamellar ichthyosis