ICHTHYOSIS
\ˌɪkθɪˈə͡ʊsɪs], \ˌɪkθɪˈəʊsɪs], \ˌɪ_k_θ_ɪ__ˈəʊ_s_ɪ_s]\
Definitions of ICHTHYOSIS
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 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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Any of several generalized skin disorders characterized by dryness, roughness, and scaliness, due to hypertrophy of the stratum corneum epidermis. Most are genetic, but some are acquired, developing in association with other systemic disease or genetic syndrome.
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Fishskin disease, xeroderma, a congenital rough skin due to a generalized hypertrophy of the horny layer of the epidermis with diminished sweat and sebaceous secretion.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A permanently harsh, dry, scaly, and, in some cases, almost horny texture of the integuments of the body, unconnected with internal disorder. Willan and Bateman have two varieties, I. simplex and I. cornea. Alibert has three, the I. nacree or pearly, the I. cornee, and the I. pellagre or Pellagra.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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