Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin via Medieval Latin and Middle English: a fungal infection of the skin. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Medieval Latin, from Latin, a gnawing worm. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Dandruff can also accompany psoriasis or a fungal infection of the scalp called tinea capitis which occurs in children and teenagers.”
“In that form known as tinea kerion mild applications are demanded at first; later the same treatment as in the ordinary type.”
“It’s also called tinea corporis when on the body, tinea capitis when on the head, tinea pedis when on the feet, and tinea cruris when on the groin.”
“Various fungi, such as tinea versicolor and the Mexican ` ` Caraati, '' may produce discoloration on the skin.”
“Various fungi, such as tinea versicolor and the Mexican”
“Micologists (fungi freaks) reguard Townsville as some kind of Babylon, a mythical place where you can enjoy tinea between the fingers and all manner of interesting jock rots and thrushes while straight up fungi can sprout in your pants in under an hour.”
“These include athlete's foot, ringworm and jock itch, and occur when fungus grows and multiplies on certain areas the body, resulting in a fungal (or tinea) infection.”
“Psoriasis and lichen planus are just two possible inflammatory conditions that can cause both skin and nail changes that can mimic onychomycosis and tinea pedis.”
“But soon after they were unearthed, heat and humidity attracted tiny spores of tinea pedis and other types of fungus that attacked the clay statues.”
“Ut tinea corrodit vestimentum sic, invidiae eum qui zelatur consumit.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tinea’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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diseases that make lovely baby girl's...
usually i try to restrict this to sexually transmitted diseases, but some of the others are just so musical. Syphilis, it should be noted, would make a lovely boy's name, but that is outside the sc...
gonorrhea, chlamydia, roseola, rubella, angina, atrophy, candida, cholera, jaundice, palsy, leukemia, alopecia and 50 more...
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G...R...E
gross.
sybarite, restiveness, churl, nepotism, jingoism, pusillanimous, gaffe, incisive, enervate, bucolic, concomitant, abeyance and 158 more...
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Worse Than They Sound
fistula, cryptosporidium, debride, donnybrook, decerebrate, pillory, flagellate, disembogue, minatory, micturate, coprolite, nosocomial and 160 more...
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Peter Carey's Illywhacker
Culling my "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list. Thanks for the idea, yarb.
tinea, mingy, blanco, bitzer, mallee fowl, yabbies, coir, bluey, stoush, barney, currawong, providore and 43 more...
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Lovely Words for Ugly Things
What do you mean, that's a bad thing?
lubricious, obloquy, inveigh, pernicious, blackguard, asinine, loathsome, insipid, pandemonium, bastinado, hirsute, amanita and 19 more...
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Maladies
dhobi itch, kerion, tinea, scabies, sarcoptid, urtication, dropsy, lymphedema, papilledema, chemosis, anasarca, vapors and 55 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear Right. Or a genus of arthropods. Apr 13, 2009
sionnach Poor phurphuraceous Phoebe. But better tinea pedis than tinea cruris. Apr 13, 2009
chained_bear "Phoebe was an awkward misfit. Her fingers were smudged with ink. Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea, her fingernails black and broken."
—Peter Carey, Illywhacker, 14 Apr 13, 2009
sionnach tinea versicolor is caused by the fungus Pityrosporum furfur
harhar Jan 12, 2009