Definition of Alphosis

1. lack of skin pigmentation [n -SISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alphosis

alphaprodine
alphaproteobacteria
alphaproteobacterial
alphaproteobacterium
alphas
alphasone acetophenide
alphasyllabaries
alphasyllabary
alphavirus
alphavirus infections
alphaviruses
alphitomancy
alphorn
alphorns
alphos
alphosis (current term)
alphosises
alphyl
alphyls
alpia
alpidem
alpine
alpine-chough
alpine ash
alpine azalea
alpine bearberry
alpine bullhead
alpine bullheads
alpine chough
alpine choughs

Literary usage of Alphosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On diseases of the skin: A System of Cutaneous Medicine by Erasmus Wilson (1868)
"... cr.v; "it is a freckled spot that groweth in liic skin; he is clean." • alphosis ... whiteness; alphosis is one of the species of Mason Good's penu*. ..."

2. The London Medical Repository and Review (1817)
"MISCELLANEOUS. your last Number, you point out an omission of Species under the ^enus alphosis. The remark does credit to the accuracy of your reading : but ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1883)
"These three types of alphosis may lead us in the future to a more correct study of the causes. 1. We have leucoderma in a woman who had no noticeable change ..."

4. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"After- alphosis. wards, however, similar varieties of the human species ... alphosis, regarded by our author as a species of disease, he notices the two ..."

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