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A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.

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  1. n. A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.
  2. n. A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.
  3. n. infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches
  4. 1. (Med.) A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis. 2. (Zoöl.) A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.
  5. A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially toringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.
  6. n:100 n. infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches n. type genus of the Tineidae: clothes moths