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pytyriasis

pytyriasis is the archaic form 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 pytyriasis

What is pytyriasis the archaic form of?
Pytyriasis is the archaic form of pityriasis.

Words near pytyriasis in the dictionary

  1. pythonomorphs
  2. pythons
  3. pytilia
  4. pytilias
  5. pyts
  6. pytyriasis
  7. Pyu
  8. pyuria
  9. pyurias
  10. pyurid
  11. pyurids

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