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Any of several congenital diseases in which the skin is fishlike (dry and scaly)
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ichthyosis
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ichthyosis (plural ichthyoses ) is a heterogeneous family of at least 28, generalized, mostly genetic skin disorders . All types of ichthyosis have dry, thickened, scaly or flaky skin. In many types there is cracked skin , which is said to resemble the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1815, Modern Latin, from Greek ikhthys "fish" + -osis .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ichthyosis \Ich`thy*o"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'ichqy`s fish.] (Med.) A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; -- called also fishskin . -- Ich`thy*ot"ic , a.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context disease English) A disease which gives the sufferer a dry, scaly skin.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several congenital diseases in which the skin is fishlike (dry and scaly)
Usage examples of ichthyosis.
Her flaky ichthyosis patterns radiate across the flesh of each buttock like scars from a thousand flagellations, but in perfect symmetry, as though inflicted by a deranged aesthete.
Figure 76 shows a case of ichthyosis cornea pictured in the Lancet, 1850.
Martin described a remarkable variety of ichthyosis in which the skin was covered with strong hairs like the bristles of a boar.
Hospital, London Hospital, and the Royal College of Surgeons Museum, is the result of ichthyosis congenita.