See Also: Intima(health)
intima(dictionary)
intima(medicine)
tunica intima(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
vagabond(dictionary)
vagabond(2)(dictionary)
vagabond(1)(dictionary)
VAGABOND(law)
vagabond(medicine)

vagabond's disease (medicine) and intima (medicine)


vagabond's disease (medicine)


vagabond's disease -->
parasitic melanoderma
Excoriations and melanoderma caused by scratching the bites of the body louse, Pediculus corporis.

Synonym: Greenhow's disease, vagabond's disease, vagrant's disease.

Racial melanoderma, the normally dark skin of blacks and certain Other races.

Senile melanoderma, cutaneous pigmentation occurring in the aged.

Synonym: melasma universale.


intima (medicine)


intima
<pathology> Inner layer of blood vessel, comprising an endothelial monolayer on the luminal face with a subcellular elastic extracellular matrix containing a few smooth muscle cells.

Below the intima is the media, then the adventitia. The term may be applied to Other organs.