Crossword-Solution: PHTHIRIASIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phthiriasis | n. | A disease (morbus pediculous) consisting in the excessive multiplication of lice on the human body. |
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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.
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eruption
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Sentences with PHTHIRIASIS (5)
Pediculosis: a state of lousiness, or the abnormal condition caused by the multiplication of lice on the body: sec phthiriasis.
Bed-bug.] Schiödte, a Danish entomologist, has, it seems to us, forever settled the question as to whether the louse bites the flesh or sucks blood, and decides a point interesting to physicians, _i.e._, that the loathsome disease called phthiriasis is a nonentity.
PHTHIRIASIS, thi-r[=i]'a-sis, _n._ the lousy disease--_morbus pediculosus._ [L.,--Gr.] PHTHISIS, th[=i]'sis, _n._ consumption or wasting away of the lungs.--_adjs._ PHTHIS'IC, -AL (tiz'ik, -al), pertaining to or having phthisis.--_n._ PHTHISIOLOGY (tiz-i-ol'[=o]-ji), the sum of scientific knowledge about phthisis.
Our author has omitted to treat of _phthiriasis_, for an account of which see in particular Cælius Aurelianus (de Tard.
Virey accounts for the disease in the following manner: “Il est, en effet, tel tempérament muqueux, telle dégénération des humeurs lymphatiques, dans le phthiriasis ou la maladie pédiculaire, que ces insectes y trouvent une pâture inépuisable, qu’ils se propagent avec une extrême exubérance sous le peau, pénétrent dans le tissu cellulaire, et établissent d’énormes colonies parmi les ulcères qu’ils y forment.” (Hist.