See Also: tinea favosa(medicine)
porrigo favosa(medicine)
tinea(dictionary)
Tinea(medicine)
tinea nigra(medicine)
tinea pedis(medicine)
tinea profunda(medicine)
tinea sycosis(medicine)
tinea tonsurans(medicine)
tinea tropicalis(medicine)

exinanition (iou) and tinea favosa (medicine)


exinanition (iou)



exinanition noun. Now rare. E17.
[Latin exinanitio(n-), from exinanire make empty, formed as EX-1 1 + inanis empty.]
The action of emptying or draining (lit. & fig.); emptied or drained condition. E17.
Jeremy Taylor Fastings to the exinanition of spirits.
The action or an act of emptying of pride, self-will, or dignity; abasement, humbling, spec. (Theology) that taken upon himself by Christ. E17.

tinea favosa (medicine)


tinea favosa


A disease of the scalp that may affect the glabrous skin and the nails and is recognised by the concave sulfur-yellow crusts that form around loose, wiry hairs. Atrophy ensues, leaving a smooth, glossy, thin, paper-white patch. This type of disease is rare in the United States and more frequently seen in the middle east, africa, southeastern Europe, and Other countries bordering the mediterranean sea. (arnold, odom, and james, andrew's diseases of the skin, 8th ed, p319)