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ICHTHYOSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several congenital diseases in which the skin is dry and scaly like a fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

congenital disease; genetic abnormality; genetic defect; genetic disease; genetic disorder; hereditary condition; hereditary disease; inherited disease; inherited disorder (a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically)

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

xeroderma; xerodermia (a mild form of ichthyosis characterized by abnormal dryness and roughness of the skin)

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 Context examples: 

Mutation of the gene is associated with bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, ichthyosis hystrix Curth-Macklin type, palmoplantar keratoderma non-epidermolytic, ichthyosis annular epidermolytic and palmoplantar keratoderma striate type 3.

(KRT1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

An organic salt of ammonium (lactic acid neutralized with ammonium hydroxide), topical moisturizing Ammonium Lactate can be applied as a humectant in ichthyosis vulgaris and xerosis.

(Ammonium Lactate, NCI Thesaurus)