(n.) A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.
(n.) A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the tropical regions, trichophytosis caused by endothrix-species are often of inflammatory nature, the favus appears often without scutula formation (afavic).
(2) In 1839 Johann Lucas Schönlein discovered fungal elements within the lesions of favus of man.
(3) Twenty indigenous cases of favus in two families residing in the province of Quebec were studied.
(4) A Trichophyton schoenleinii (T. schoenleinii) strain from tinea favus was cultured in a liquid medium, from which an extracellular keratinase extract was obtained.
(5) The ultrastructure of 5 griseofulvin-resistant fungi of favus was studied by image processing with microcomputer.
(6) His 3 important discoveries, all made during his years in Zurich, were published on a total of 3 printed pages: so-called typhoid crystals in patients' stools (1836), "peliosis rheumatica" (1837), and - most important - the causative agent of favus (1839), a fungus later named Achorion schoenleinii.
(7) Less frequently encountered conditions include creeping eruption, favus, fowl-mite dermatitis and allergic dermatitis.
(8) Favus, or avian ringworm, was diagnosed in a backyard flock of game chickens from which Microsporum gallinae was isolated.
Flagstone
Definition:
(n.) A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(2) Solemn flagstones frowned up at kaftans, wooden beads and waist-length hair.
(3) He fell lifeless outside an abandoned building in a little alleyway, number 1313 Republic Street, where the tributes are modest - bottles of wine or beer on his flagstone deathbed, and a placard: 'No seatbelt equals death.'
(4) • 225 Upper Salthill, galwaybaybrewery.com , Buried at Sea €4.90 Larkins, Portroe, Tipperary Flagstone floors, open fires, sleeping dogs, trad acoustic music sessions … Larkins harks back to an older Ireland, more redolent of Brendan Behan than Bono.
(5) Nowhere is this lovelier than the Paseo del Río (River Walk), cobble and flagstone paths that extend for 21 blocks (almost three miles) along the San Antonio river.
(6) Today, Goma has a number of pavements, built from interlocking flagstones.
(7) In the guinea pig, the flat surfaced hexagonal cells with few microvilli were arranged like flagstones over the whole area of the planum semilunatum, while in the chick the cells with many prominent microvilli were found on both sides of the crista.
(8) Others rip upwards, allowing the fat red, purple and grey of the innards to spill onto the flagstones.
(9) Out on the patio flagstones, sometimes, tiny fragments: a little, insect-like songbird leg, with a foot clenched tight where the sinews have pulled it; or – even more gruesomely – a disarticulated beak, a house-sparrow beak top, or bottom, a little conical bead of blushed gunmetal, slightly translucent, with a few faint maxillary feathers adhering to it.
(10) Flaubert wished to close the gap not just between words and emotional truths, but between words and things: the sound of Hippolyte's wooden leg in the church ("They heard on the flagstones something like the sharp click of an iron-shod pole tapping them with even strokes"); the lumbering sway of cattle; the scoop of a hand in sugar-white arsenic.