ringworm

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ringworm

Wikipedia

Etymology

From ring +‎ worm, being descriptive of what it looks like.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪŋˌwɝm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

ringworm (usually uncountable, plural ringworms)

1. A contagious fungal infection of the skin, characterized by ring-shaped discolored patches, covered by vesicles or scales.

   In superficial mycoses infection is localised to the skin, the hair, and the nails. An example is ringworm or tinea, an infection of the skin by a dermatophyte.

   • 1848 December, “Pacific Ocean: The Island of Bornabi”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, volume 17, number 12, page 647:

     Many of these natives, especially the lower classes, and fishermen, have their skins disfigured in a singular manner, by a sort of scurfy disease, similar to the ring-worm, or rather to a person whose skin was peeling off from the effects of the sun.

Synonyms

• dermatophytosis, tinea

Hyponyms

• athlete’s foot, barber’s itch, jock itch

Derived terms

• beard ringworm
• gray patch ringworm
• honeycomb ringworm
• ringwormed
• scalp ringworm
• sylvatic ringworm

Translations

contagious fungal affliction of the skin

Albanian: qere (sq) f Arabic: سَعْفَة f (saʕfa), قَرَع m (qaraʕ), قُوبَاء f (qūbāʔ) Moroccan Arabic: قرع m (qraʕ), ڭوب m (gub) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: tinya (ca) f Chichewa: chipere, chiwengo Chinese: Mandarin: 癬 / 癣 (zh) (xuǎn), 癬疥 / 癣疥 (zh) (xuǎnjiè) Dutch: ringworm (nl) m Esperanto: favo Finnish: silsa (fi) French: teigne (fr) f, roue de Sainte-Catherine (fr) f, rogne (fr) f Galician: tiña (gl) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Ringelflechte (de) f, Flechtengrind m; (bovines) Glatzflechte f Hausa: màkērṑ m Hindi: दाद (hi) (dād) Indonesian: kurap (id) Interlingue: please add this translation if you can Italian: tigna (it) f Japanese: 白癬 (ja) (はくせん, hakusen) Khmer: ស្រែង (km) (sraeng) Korean: 버짐 (beojim) Malay: kurap (ms) Malayalam: വട്ടച്ചൊറി (vaṭṭaccoṟi), ചുണങ്ങ് (ml) (cuṇaṅṅŭ) Maltese: ħżieża f Manchu: ᡶᡳᠶᡝᠯᡝᠨ (fiyelen) Maori: muna Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Nepali: दाद (dād) Norman: tangne f Old English: dēawwyrm m Polish: parch (pl) m inan Portuguese: tinha (pt) f, porrigem f Russian: стригу́щий лиша́й m (strigúščij lišáj) Spanish: tiña (es) f, tinea f Swedish: ringorm c, revorm (sv) c Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: తామర (te) (tāmara) Thai: กลาก (th) (glàak) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Unami: mishhwe Vietnamese: hắc lào Walloon: tigne (wa) f (man, hair, diffuse), diele f (man and animals, round), rowe Sinte-Catrene (wa) f (man, round) Welsh: tarwden f, gwreinyn m, gwreinen f

See also

• dermatomycosis

Dutch

Etymology

Compound of ring +‎ worm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪŋ.ʋɔrm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ring‧worm

Noun

ringworm m (plural ringwormen, no diminutive)

1. annelid, worm of the phylum Annelida
2. ringworm, infectious fungal disease