What's the difference between scaly and seborrhea?
Scaly
Definition:
(a.) Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
(a.) Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
(a.) Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.
(a.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors present a case of scaly carcinoma, located in a vesical diverticulum.
(2) Intraepidermal epithelioma of Jadassohn is a rare cutaneous neoplasm characterized by a solitary scaly verrucous plaque.
(3) A four and a half-year old Nigerian girl, living at home, who presented with protracted fever, multifocal lymph node enlargement, extensive scaly rash, injected conjunctivae, fissuring of the lip and other features consistent with a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease is reported.
(4) Neu-Laxova syndrome is a rare form of congenital malformation characterized by intrauterine growth retardation, microcephaly with bizarre facial features, short neck, apparent edema, scaly skin, and perinatal death.
(5) In warmer water (18 degrees C), the parasites reproduced intensively only on the scaly form of fish, whereas no parasites were found on the scaleless form some days after infection.
(6) Alopecia and dry scaly skin were prominent in the diabetic mice but less extensive in the diabetic mice supplemented with EFA.
(7) After receiving either an 18.5% egg white diet for 25 weeks, or a 32% egg white diet for 12 weeks, they exhibited dermal lesions characterized by alopecia, scaly dermatitis and achromotrichia, which increased in severity with the deficiency.
(8) Macular, papulonodular and scaly, annular, or arciform lesions are represented, histopathologically by lymphocytic, predominantly neutrophilic, and mixed infiltrates with a prominent histiocytic component.
(9) Madrid artist Deno is oblivious to the grimacing, concentrating on needling a giant scaly fish into his chest.
(10) Subsequently, scaly erythema of the nose and of the auricles appeared.
(11) SPP was clinically characterized by scaly oval plaques on the trunk and proximal aspect of extremities.
(12) The surface of the spine is covered by a scaly keratin of possibly sloughing cells, and the cornified layer on the spine is very thick (more than 100 mu), reaching 3 to 7 times the depth of the corresponding layer in other parts.
(13) Among patients with scaly scalp lessons of varying severity the isolation rate was 64%, but dermatophytic fungi were also isolated from 16% of 50 asymptomatic children.
(14) Topical application of the major lipoxygenase product to paws of essential fatty acid-deficient rats resulted in nearly as complete resolution of the scaly dermatitis as did the application of columbinic acid itself; the cyclooxygenase product was not at all effective.
(15) Affected males are of small stature and exhibit scaliness and crusting of the eyelids, ears, tail, and feet, marked splenomegaly, moderate hepatomegaly, enlarged lymph nodes, and atrophy of the thymus.
(16) On the trunk, the abdomen was more severely involved than the back in 63% of the cases with the XLI, whereas the back was more scaly than the abdomen in 44% of those with IV.
(17) A scaly rash suggestive of ichthyosis and eye irritation were present in some heavy kava drinkers.
(18) We investigated lipoprotein metabolism in 14 patients with recessive X-linked ichthyosis (RXLI), a metabolic disease characterized by scaly skin, corneal opacity and steroid sulfatase deficiency.
(19) Microtrauma from small particles can aggravate the dry scaly dermatosis.
(20) These alterations in the process of keratinocyte differentiation may explain the clinically observed scaliness associated with hypothyroidism in humans.
Seborrhea
Definition:
(n.) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.
Example Sentences:
(1) The degrees of hirsutism and acne, and of seborrhea and hair loss when present, were scored by means of a modified version of the Ferriman and Gallway criteria.
(2) In the relatives mild pachydermia was detected in 2 out of 26, while seborrhea was present in 6 subjects.
(3) In all patients there was an impressive improvement in clinical symptoms, especially a decrease in seborrhea and inflammatory lesions.
(4) Patients treated by vaginal route had significantly less seborrhea and acne than those treated by oral route.
(5) Rats fed diets containing HCO or HPO demonstrated toxicity of thermally oxidized fats by the appearance of diarrhea, dermatitis, seborrhea, and hair loss.
(6) All of the blepharitic patients had an abnormality of sebaceous gland function ranging from seborrhea sicca to seborrheic dermatitis or acne rosacea, suggesting a generalized sebaceous gland dysfunction that included the meibomian glands.
(7) A micronized benzoyl peroxide, in a magnesium aluminum silicate-alcohol gel, appears to achieve dramatic objective improvement of the comedo and papular stages of acne, as well as associated seborrhea.
(8) Seborrhea is a multifaceted disease, and it is a common presentation in the small animal practice setting.
(9) The third dog improved, but continued to have minor signs of seborrhea.
(10) Androgenic side effects such as seborrhea, acne, and hirsutism, whenever they occurred, were benign and reverted soon after discontinuing the medication.
(11) Emphasis is placed on recent advances of diseases that cause seborrhea and on appropriate therapy.
(12) Rarely, an underlying skin disorder such as lichen sclerosus, seborrhea, or atopic vulvitis will be seen.
(13) Side effects included seborrhea, acne, nervousness, myalgia and arthraglia, hoarseness and mild hirsutism but all these symptoms were promptly reversed following discontinuation.
(14) use, which has a beneficial effect in cases of acne and seborrhea oleosa.
(15) Differential diagnosis of the omphalic stone includes the so called umbilical cholesteatoma, an accumulation of crumbling, fetid masses in the umbilicus, often times accompanied by seborrhea which may lead to abscess formation.
(16) Under this therapy acne, seborrhea, alopecia and hirsutism improved.
(17) Androgen dependent skin disorders, like oily seborrhea and most cases of acne are not the result of endocrine disturbances in the sense of an pathologically increased or decreased production of sexual hormons.
(18) Seborrhea oleosa, acne, alopecia, and hirsutism may respond to steroid hormone treatment; neoplastic etiology and pregnancy must be eliminated before such treatment, however.
(19) Therefore, we investigated different constitutional parameters of the skin (hyperhidrosis, dyshidrosis and acrocyanosis of the hands, seborrhea, sebostasis, white dermographism) in a prospective study of 210 hairdressers' and 95 bricklayers' apprentices over 3 years.
(20) When seborrhea was intense, this correlation was however lost.