An overabundance of dead skin causes an uncomfortable build up of scaliness and lesions plaques. From Wordnik.com. [Psoriasis Guru » Blog Archive » What is Plaque Psoriasis?] Reference
In this condition, whenever the hair is brushed or combed scaliness increases, often followed by itching and the scalp may become red from scratching. From Wordnik.com. [Home Remedies for Curing Dandruff] Reference
The average person, who has psoriasis, may just have a little bit of redness and scaliness on the knees and on the elbows, but not typically in the other areas. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2003] Reference
There was a suggestion of scaliness about it, as if the owner had dwelt long under conditions almost antithetical to those conditions under which human life ordinarily thrives. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquering Sword of Conan]
Baths of sal ammoniac, two to six ounces to the bath are also valuable in removing the scaliness. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
This minute animal burrows in the skin, irritating it, and thus producing the scaliness and itching. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
This name is from the Greek lepra, by which the Greek physicians designated the disease from its scaliness. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Treatment that has in view removal of the scaliness and the maintenance of a soft and flexible condition of the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
By its greater scaliness, by its higher degree of inflammatory action, and by its larger number of patches, as also by its history. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
If upon the face, in addition to the scaliness, the sebaceous ducts are usually seen to be enlarged and filled with sebaceous matter. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
The scaliness is bran-like or flaky, of a dirty gray color, and, as a rule, less marked in the central portion; it is never abundant. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
This disease is characterized by a profuse scaliness of the skin, by an eruption of pimples, vesicles, and, in rare instances, of pustules. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Ichthyosis is a chronic, hypertrophic disease, characterized by dryness and scaliness of the skin, with a variable amount of papillary growth. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
In the severe variety -- ichthyosis hystrix -- in addition to scaliness there is marked papillary hypertrophy, forming warty or spinous patches. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
The hot vapor bath once or twice weekly is serviceable in keeping the scaliness in abeyance, and has, moreover, in some cases, a therapeutic value. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
More or less scaliness is usually present in the confluent patches and on the palms and soles; in these latter regions the papules are rarely seen. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
At first they have a glazed or shining appearance; later, becoming slightly scaly, the scaliness being more marked where solid patches have resulted. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
It is usually pinkish, pearl-white, or reddish, commonly devoid of hair, with no tendency to scaliness, and with, usually, several vessels coursing over it. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
Symptoms that also need to be considered are scaliness, pain, itchiness, ulceration, bleeding, oozing, and the development of bumps or hard nodules around the area. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The harsh, dry skin, epidermic and papillary hypertrophy, the furfuraceous or plate-like scaliness, the greater development upon the extensor surfaces, a history of the affection dating from early childhood, and the absence of inflammatory symptoms. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
There is gradual increase in size, the parts in some instances reaching enormous proportions; the skin becomes rough and warty, eczematous inflammation is often superadded, and, sooner or later, ulcers, superficial or deep, form -- which, together with the crusting and moderate scaliness, present a striking picture. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
"This snake has weight, a cold feel and a scratchy scaliness. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
"It's laughter I'm trying to hold back, not shame, your scaliness!. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodhype]
The scaliness is, as a rule, scanty. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
Measles is to be differentiated by its catarrhal symptoms, fever, form and situation of the eruption; rötheln, by its small, roundish, confluent pinkish or reddish patches, its precursory pyrexic symptoms, its epidemic nature, and short duration; tinea versicolor by its scaliness, peripheral growth, distribution and history. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
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