FAVUS
\fˈavəs], \fˈavəs], \f_ˈa_v_ə_s]\
Definitions of FAVUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; - called also favas and sectila.
By Oddity Software
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A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; - called also favas and sectila.
By Noah Webster.
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Tinea favosa, t. lupinosa, porrigo favosa, honeycombed ringworm; a skin disease of childhood, marked by the formation of yellow saucer-shaped crusts around the hair-follicles on the body; it is due to the presence of a fungus, A chorion schonleinii.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Contagious cutaneous disease, characterized by yellow crusts.
By William R. Warner
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A disease of the hairy scalp, consisting of dry, yellowish, round, often cup-shaped, incrustations of a fungous nature.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Porrigo, Porrigo favosa, see Favosus- f. Confertus, Porrigo scutulata- f. Dispersus, Porrigo lupinosa-f. Dissemine, Porrigo lupinosa -f. en Groupes, Porrigo scutulata.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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