Crossword-Solution: FAVUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Favus | n. | A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite. |
| Favus | n. | A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila. |
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Sentences with FAVUS (5)
Young men from eighteen to twenty occasionally become gray; and according to Rayer, paroxysms of rage, unexpected and unwelcome news, diseases of the scalp such as favus, wounds of the head, habitual headache, over-indulgence of the sexual appetite, mercurial courses too frequently repeated, too great anxiety, etc., have been known to blanch the hair prematurely.
Schoenlein, in 1839, that a very common and most distressing disease of the scalp, known as favus, is really due to the presence and growth on the scalp of a vegetable organism of microscopic size.
Among the diseases of the scalp attention is given to alopecia, dandruff (_furfur_), tinea caries and various pustular affections, fanus (favus), rima, spidecia, achora, etc.
FAVUS (_Scald Head_) is a disease peculiar to the hair-follicles, and is indicated by the formation of small yellow crusts, having the form of an inverted cup.
When it appears in isolated cups, it is termed _favus dispersus_, but it often occurs in large clusters, as represented in Colored Plate II, Fig.