PITYRIASIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pityriasis mean? 

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

1. any of several skin disorders characterized by shedding dry flakes of skin

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITYRIASIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several skin disorders characterized by shedding dry flakes of skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

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

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

dandruff (a condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp)

pityriasis alba (common form of pityriasis (usually in children or young adults) characterized by round patches of depigmentation)

pityriasis rosea (pityriasis in which an itchy rash develops over the trunk and extremities)

 Context examples 

A rare skin disorder of unknown etiology that is considered to be a more severe form of pityriasis lichenoides.

(Pityriasis Lichenoides et Varioliformis Acuta, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare cutaneous disorder of unknown etiology that can present either as an acute condition, with multiple papular lesions which become vesicular and necrotic (pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta) or chronic, with small, scaling papules (pityriasis lichenoides chronica).

(Pityriasis Lichenoides, NCI Thesaurus)