Crossword-Solution: ABIOTROPHY
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZCEA
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eruption
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Sentences with ABIOTROPHY (2)
Because his expressions as applied to other medical terms that are too general in their significance, will help physicians to get at the real meaning of them I venture to quote his opinion at some length: [Footnote 41: "Subjective Sensations of Sight and Sound, Abiotrophy and Other Lectures," Philadelphia, 1904.] The history of the word "neurasthenia" is noteworthy.
Inherent want of vitality and the resulting degenerative atrophy, or Gowers’s abiotrophy, may imitate the results of prolonged wear and tear of the tissues, and thus it appears that Charcot’s[203] group of diseases special to old age, namely senile marasmus, senile osteomalacia, senile atrophy of the brain, senile heart weakness, and arteriosclerosis, are not confined to senescence.