DERMATOSIS (dermatoses)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: dermatoses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dermatosis mean? 

• DERMATOSIS (noun)
  The noun DERMATOSIS has 1 sense:

1. disorder involving lesions or eruptions of the skin (in which there is usually no inflammation)

  Familiarity information: DERMATOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DERMATOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disorder involving lesions or eruptions of the skin (in which there is usually no inflammation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("dermatosis" is a kind of...):

disease of the skin; skin disease; skin disorder (a disease affecting the skin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dermatosis"):

pityriasis (any of several skin disorders characterized by shedding dry flakes of skin)

 Context examples 

Alclometasone dipropionate is used for the relief of the inflammatory and pruritic manifestations of corticosteroid-responsive dermatoses.

(Alclometasone Dipropionate, NCI Thesaurus)

Organisms of the genus Elaeophora infect wild elk and domestic sheep causing ischaemic necrosis of the brain, blindness, and dermatosis of the face.

(Filariasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Desoximetasone is indicated for the relief of the inflammatory and pruritic manifestations of corticosteroid-responsive dermatoses.

(Desoximetasone, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called precancerous dermatitis and precancerous dermatosis.

(Bowen disease, NCI Dictionary)

Used topically in the treatment of psoriasis, dermatoses, and alopecia areata, it is also used in biomedical research due to its effect on EGFR autophosphorylation.

(Anthralin, NCI Thesaurus)