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Ringworm  n.  (Med.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton).






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"Ringworm" Quotes from Famous Books



... you at your school. No? Then they made you study too hard. Kate—what d'you think Bill Acroyd's done now? Turned this year's heifers out along of last year's with the ringworm. And asks me how I think they get it. This child doesn't eat enough to ...
— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair

... processes, and these run their course on the surface of the body, and are hence relatively of less importance. It will be sufficient here to refer to the forms, achorion, trichophyton, oidium, aspergillus, and the diseases produced by them, favus, ringworm, and thrush, to show this peculiarity. Nevertheless, we see that these organisms also (as was proved by the older observations of Hannover and Zenker) may, under certain circumstances, penetrate into the interior of the organs. Grawitz, moreover, has recently shown that their faculty of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various

... short duration, decay and casting off of the epidermis in its entire thickness supercedes the scaling process, and suppuration transforms the ringworm into an ulcer covered by a dirty-brown rind and ...
— Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated • Max Birnbaum

... manner friendship was concluded between the kings and peace between the countries. King Magnus fell ill and died of the ringworm disease, after being ill for some time. He died and was buried at Nidaros. He was an amiable king and bewailed ...
— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson

... RINGWORM.—The head is to be washed twice a day with soft soap and warm soft water; when dried the places to be rubbed with a piece of linen rag dipped in ammonia from gas tar; the patient should take a little sulphur and molasses, or some other genuine ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols



Words linked to "Ringworm" :   eczema marginatum, tinea, barber's itch, tinea cruris, tinea barbae, tinea pedis, athlete's foot, dhobi itch, jock itch, ringworm shrub, tinea unguium, mycosis, kerion, tinea corporis, fungal infection, ringworm cassia, tinea capitis, roundworm, ringworm bush



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