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Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches
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ringworm
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A litany of nits, ringworm , fleas and unmentionables ... But as the weeks and months passed, everything changed. ▪ Her services were also called upon to charm away warts and cure ringworm in cattle. ▪ It may also appear on other ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches [syn: tinea , roundworm ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name given to certain skin diseases, early 15c., from ring (n.1) + worm (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A contagious fungal affliction of the skin, characterised by ring-shaped discoloured patches, covered by vesicles or scales.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ringworm is an American metalcore band formed in Cleveland , Ohio in 1989. The name "Ringworm" was derived from a Vincent Price movie. The band has toured extensively in the United States , Australia , New Zealand , and Europe and has released their last ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ringworm \Ring"worm"\, n. (Med.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different ...
Usage examples of ringworm.
I would say I had ringworm and Doctor Byk would not let me come in case I infected the other boys.
Against ringworm an ointment made with one drachm of thymol to an ounce of soft paraffin is found to be a sure specific.
It is painful to see the prevalence of such repulsive maladies as scabies, scald-head, ringworm, sore eyes, and unwholesome-looking eruptions, and fully 30 per cent of the village people are badly seamed with smallpox.
For herself, she came clean, arrived in Paris with, nothing worse than scabies, malnutrition and ringworm about her person.
She is a hoary pandemonium of ills, enlarged glands, mumps, quinsy, bunions, hayfever, bedsores, ringworm, floating kidney, Derbyshire neck, warts, bilious attacks, gallstones, cold feet, varicose veins.
We went one night up in Detroit and people was being healed left and right of back trouble, blindness, bunions, goiters, liver problems, ringworm, you name it.
Many diseases-from anthrax to tuberculosis, cholera to streptococcosis, ringworm to various poxes-are passed back and forth between humans and livestock.
Maybe dermatomycosis, a fungal infection, perhaps in the ringworm family, though the symptoms aren't sufficiently indicative of ringworm.
Its bitter root, ground and mixed with the powdered root of Acorus calamus, the Sweet Sedge, is in India considered a valuable external application for ringworm.
In our case, this includes things like ringworm, pinworms, athlete's foot, ticks, and fleas.
Because it was here and there those wounds, craters, and those ringworms, solfataras, because of a volcano which breaks, and which throws out its pus, the globe does not die.
Fordor's black rivers were twisting like ringworms, huge glaciers figure skated across barren plains, and the mountains were playing leapfrog.