DERMATOSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: dermatoses   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disorder involving lesions or eruptions of the skin (in which there is usually no inflammation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("dermatosis" is a kind of...):

disease of the skin; skin disease; skin disorder (a disease affecting the skin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dermatosis"):

pityriasis (any of several skin disorders characterized by shedding dry flakes of skin)

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