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Ringworm :: Ringworm (n.) 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)..

Botfly :: Botfly (n.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and anot

Fellmonger :: Fellmonger (n.) A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts..

Moccasin :: Moccasin (n.) A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians..

Pell :: Pell (n.) A skin or hide; a pelt.

Dartars :: Dartars (n.) A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.

Addison's Disease :: Addison's disease () A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal..

Epispastic :: Epispastic (n.) An external application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory..

Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f

Tegument :: Tegument (n.) Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide..

Wildfire :: Wildfire (n.) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin..

Contuse :: Contuse (v. t.) To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.

Redskin :: Redskin (n.) A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin.

Lichen :: Lichen (n.) A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion..

Dermatologist :: Dermatologist (n.) One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.

Shamoying :: Shamoying (n.) A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather, which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning..

Serpigo :: Serpigo (n.) A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm..

Emphractic :: Emphractic (a.) Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.

Tanning :: Tanning (n.) The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1..

Hypodermic :: Hypodermic (a.) Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.

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