(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.
Ringworm
Definition:
(n.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton).
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinically, our cases of black-dot ringworm caused by T. violaceum often presented with subtle changes of scaling, hair loss, and black dots.
(2) Scalp ringworm among children ranked third (15.3%), Microsporum canis was the main etiologic agent.
(3) The organism was isolated from skin scrapings collected from ringworm lesions mainly on the heads of 2 naturally infected calves.
(4) Three cases of leptospirosis, two cases of Newcastle disease, two cases of ringworm, and a single infection with Mycobacterium bovis and with Salmonella arizonae were also encountered.
(5) A total of 258 cattle clinically affected with Trichophyton verrucosum (ringworm) were treated twice by spraying with a suspension containing the fungicidal antibiotic natamycin.
(6) Dermatophytes of the genera Trichophyton, Microsporum and Epidermophyton were isolated from 162 (41%) of 395 patients with clinical manifestations of ringworm infection reporting at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria between January 1986 and December 1987.
(7) A survey was carried out on the distribution of ringworm infections among school children in four primary schools in Jos, Plateau State of Nigeria.
(8) A suspension based on the antibiotic, natamycin, was applied by sponging to 83 horses of various breeds and ages with signs of clinical ringworm.
(9) Scales were taken from 128 human volunteers suffering from ringworm infections and grown on Sabourand's media to determine the type of organisms causing the disease.
(10) This case also demonstrates the benefit of corticosteroids for certain cases of inflammatory ringworm where the host's response to the fungus is exceptionally marked.
(12) After an episode of cerebral toxoplasmosis for which he was treated with systemic steroids (because of cerebral oedema) he developed, over 16 days, a remarkably extensive ringworm of the trunk due to an unusual zoophilic dermatophyte, Microsporum (Trichophyton) gallinae.
(13) Moreover, 415 children were examined to determine the incidence of head lice, scabies, ringworm and catarrh - conditions which had been found to be common among children in the low-income group.
(14) The present work has looked at the distribution of ringworm infections among the Nigerian nomadic Fulani herdsmen.
(15) Fourteen cases are described in which the local application of corticosteroid preparations to ringworm infections of the skin have resulted in unusual clinical pictures.
(16) Out of 124 children examined, 36 had scalp lesions and 32 cases were confirmed as scalp-ringworm on direct microscopy.
(17) An account is given of the increase in incidence of scalp ringworm seen in London school children over a twelve year period.
(18) The use of these factors in preparation of efficacious fungicides used in the treatment of ringworm infections in man and animals is discussed.
(19) Eight agents of ringworms have been recorded in the horse.
(20) There have been few geographical surveys of ringworm fungi that have covered the world.