Crossword-Solution: EPIZOIC
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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
EZMCEA
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eruption
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Sentences with EPIZOIC (5)
The passage is in "The Poet at the Breakfast Table": Our _epizoic_ literature is becoming so extensive that nobody is safe from its _ad infinitum_ progeny.
Like many epizoic or parasitic insects, _Hemimerus_ is wingless, eyeless and has relatively short and strong legs.
Many species are "epiphytic" or "epizoic," dwelling on plants or animals, and sometimes choice enough in their preference of a single genus or species as host.
SUCTORIA = TENTACULIFERA _Infusoria with cilia only in the young state,[178] without mouth or anus, but absorbing food (usually living Ciliates) by one or more tentacles, perforated at the apex; mostly attached, frequently epizoic, rarely parasitic in the interior of other Protozoa._ {159}_Acineta_, Ehrb.
The attached species are {162}some of them indifferent to their base; others are only found on Algae, or again only epizoic on special Metazoan hosts, or even on special parts of these.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1990).