Crossword clues for eczema
eczema
- Skin trouble
- Skin complaint
- Skin disorder
- Dermatological diagnosis
- Itchy skin problem
- Spotty problem
- Allergic inflammation
- Itchy skin inflammation
- Itchy skin disorder
- Itchy skin condition
- Itchy rash
- Inflammatory condition of the skin
- Form of dermatitis
- Aloe target
- Allergy rash
- Noncontagious skin condition
- Itchy rash cause
- Itching condition
- Irritating skin condition
- Dermatitis type
- Itch's cause
- Skin condition
- Aloe soothes it
- Cause of a skin rash
- Dermatologist's case
- Aloe target, perhaps
- Itch cause
- Dermatological concern
- Itchy condition
- Particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages
- Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin
- Skin malady
- Dermal affliction
- Skin affliction
- Winding Mediterranean course mostly in very good condition
- Inflammatory skin condition
- Dermatologist's concern
- Skin problem
- Case for a dermatologist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eczema \Ec"ze*ma\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'e`kzema; "ek out + zei^n to boil.] (Med.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1753, from Greek ekzema, literally "something thrown out by heat," from ekzein "to boil over, break out," from ek "out" (see ex-) + zein "to boil," from PIE root *yes- "to boil, foam, bubble" (see yeast). Said to have been the name given by ancient physicians to "any fiery pustule on the skin" [Chambers' "Cyclopaedia"].
Wiktionary
n. An acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly. It is noncontagious.
WordNet
n. generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "eczema".
I escaped only to be confided in by a matron with a tendency to follicular tonsilitis and eczema.
And I have myself known wonderful cures to follow on the adoption of a fruitarian dietary in cases of cancer, tumour, gout, eczema, all kinds of inflammatory complaints, and wounds that refused to heal.
The transition of the last stage of eczema into psoriasis is indicated by a tendency of the inflamed, thickened, scaly skin to become moist when rubbed.
Image is everything, sure, but Bonny suddenly has the spiteful hope that Mona is bucktoothed and fish-eyed, eczemaed and jug-eared, when you peel back her digital veneer.
Before walking out on Eleanor, a lifetime eczema sufferer, he had raided her medicine box and brought away two thick tubes of hydrocortisone ointment.
Various skin diseases are regarded as local expressions of, or as being materially modified by, the scrofulous diathesis, as eczema, impetigo, and lupus.
Do not report submaxillary enlargement in recurrent tonsilitis or carious teeth or post-cervical enlargement in pediculosis capitis, or in impetigo or eczema of the scalp.
Fernie advises 1 dessertspoonful per day of pure lavender water for eczema.
For minor skin ailments, scalp eruptions, eczema, acne, scaling of the skin and allied conditions.
Three of the ladies made it through the first ward, with its cases of scrofula, scabies, eczema, defluxions, and stinking pyemia, before deciding that their charitable inclinations could be entirely satisfied by a donation to L'Hôpital, and fleeing back to the dispensary to shed the rough hopsacking gowns with which we had been furnished.
So we can observe many difficult-to-cure cases regarding atopic dermatitis or eczema which have been cured.
It has been used from remote ages for the skin diseases of animals, and more recently in medicine for psoriasis and chronic eczema.
Sanguinaria root is chiefly used as an expectorant for chronic bronchitis and as a local application in chronic eczema, specially when secondary to varicose ulcers.
It is a readysolvent for chemical drugs and is used externally for chronic eczema as oil, ointment, and soap.
After Le Puy the going got steeper, the mountains higher and every town seemed to be a watering spa where the life-giving streams flowing out from the rocks of the massif had attracted those with aches and eczemas developed in the cities and made fortunes for the cunning Auvergnat peasants who had gone into the spa business with a will.