Ichthyosis
WordNet
noun
(1) Any of several congenital diseases in which the skin is fishlike (dry and scaly)
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A disease which gives the sufferer a dry, scaly skin.
- 1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’, Norton 2005, p. 1506:
- A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale-like affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly non-infective.
- 1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’, Norton 2005, p. 1506: