scaliness
11rough — I. adjective (rougher; roughest) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English rūh; akin to Old High German rūh rough, Lithuanian raukas wrinkle Date: before 12th century 1. a. marked by inequalities, ridges, or projections on the surface ; coarse… …
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13fat — fatless, adj. fatlike, adj. /fat/, adj., fatter, fattest, n., v., fatted, fatting. adj. 1. having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person. 2. plump; well fed: a good, fat chicken. 3. consisting of or containing fat; greasy; oily:… …
14feed — feedable, adj. /feed/, v., fed, feeding, n. v.t. 1. to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child. 2. to yield or serve as food for: This land has fed 10 generations. 3. to provide as food. 4. to furnish for consumption. 5. to… …
15ichthyosis — ichthyotic /ik thee ot ik/, adj. /ik thee oh sis/, n. Pathol. a hereditary skin disease in which the epidermis continuously flakes off in large scales or plates. [1805 15; < NL; see ICHTHY , OSIS] * * * ▪ disease also called fish skin disease ,… …
16skin disease — ▪ pathology Introduction any of the diseases or disorders that affect the human skin. They have a wide range of causes. General features Although most diseases affecting the skin originate in the layers of the skin, such abnormalities are… …
17Leprosy — (Heb. tsara ath, a smiting, a stroke, because the disease was regarded as a direct providential infliction). This name is from the Greek lepra, by which the Greek physicians designated the disease from its scaliness. We have the description of …
18scaly leg — also scaly legs n a disease of poultry that is transmitted by a mite of the genus Knemidokoptes (K. mutans) and that produces an abnormal rough hard scaliness on the featherless parts of the legs * * * a type of mange in fowls in which the legs… …
19discoid lupus erythematosus — (DLE) a chronic form of cutaneous lupus erythematosus in which the skin lesions mimic those of the systemic form but systemic signs are rare and develop only occasionally after many years. It is characterized by discoid skin plaques with edema,… …
20foliation — Synonyms and related words: accounting, census, counting, dactylonomy, delamination, desquamation, enumeration, exfoliation, flakiness, foliage, frondage, furfuration, inventorying, lamellation, lamination, leafage, leafiness, measurement,… …
