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pitryasis

pitryasis is the misspelling of pityriasis.

Meaning of pityriasis

Noun

pityriasis (countable and uncountable, plural pityriases)

  1. Any of several varieties of skin diseases characterized by the shedding of flakes or scales, such as dandruff.
    • ‘This patch is pityriasis, you see, it's coffee-coloured. The things we use for the other troubles will cure that too.’1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 137

Questions about pitryasis

What is pitryasis the misspelling of?
Pitryasis is the misspelling of pityriasis.

Words near pitryasis in the dictionary

  1. pitrilysins
  2. pitris
  3. pitroom
  4. pitrooms
  5. Pitrufquén
  6. pitryasis
  7. pits
  8. pits against
  9. pits of despair
  10. pits of stomachs
  11. pits of the stomach

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