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Definition of Tinea
1. Noun. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
Specialized synonyms: Dhobi Itch, Kerion, Athlete's Foot, Tinea Pedis, Barber's Itch, Tinea Barbae, Tinea Capitis, Tinea Corporis, Eczema Marginatum, Jock Itch, Tinea Cruris, Tinea Unguium
Generic synonyms: Fungal Infection, Mycosis
2. Noun. Type genus of the Tineidae: clothes moths.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Tineidae, Tineidae
Member holonyms: Casemaking Clothes Moth, Tinea Pellionella
Definition of Tinea
1. n. A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.
Definition of Tinea
1. Noun. (pathology) A fungal infection of the skin known generally as ringworm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tinea
1. a fungous skin disease [n -S] : TINEAL [adj]
Medical Definition of Tinea
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinea
Literary usage of Tinea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1920)
"When that part of the face on which the beard grows is affected, it is distinguished
as tinea barbae, or ringworm of the beard, or barber's itch. ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin by Louis Adolphus Duhring (1881)
"This process may go on until the entire surface of the body is covered; and this
Is one strong point of difference between tinea imbricata and tinea circi- ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin by Louis Adolphus Duhring (1881)
"This process may go on until the entire surface of the body is covered; and this
is one strong point of difference between tinea imbricata and tinea circi- ..."
4. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin by Louis Adolphus Duhring (1882)
"This process ma}- go on until the entire surface of the body is covered ; and
this is a point of difference between tinea imbricata and tinea ..."
5. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein, Jerome Henry Salisbury (1915)
"When that part of the face on which the beard grows is affected, it is distinguished
as tinea barbae, or ringworm of the beard,.or barber's itch. ..."
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