Crossword-Solution: POMPHOLYX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pompholyx | n. | Impure zinc oxide. |
| Pompholyx | n. | A skin disease in which there is an eruption of bullae, without inflammation or fever. |
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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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The acute form is subdivided according to the degree of inflammation, as _pemphigus pompholyx_ in which it is severe, and _pemphigus benignus,_ when it is mild.
The impure oxide produced by burning the metal, roasting its ores, or in melting brass, is called also pompholyx, and tutty.
With this _cadmia_ is naturally related mineral _spodos_, known to the Moor Serapion, but unknown to the Greeks; and also _pompholyx_--for both are produced by fire where the miners, breaking the hard rocks in drifts, tunnels, and shafts, burn the _cadmia_ or pyrites or galena or other similar minerals.
The white _pompholyx_, like wool which floats in the air in summer, is found in Hildesheim in the seams in the rocks of almost all quarries except in the sandstone.
But the grey and the brown and the yellow _pompholyx_ are found in those silver mines where the miners break up the rocks by fire.