pachylosis

alternative pachulosis

1. uncountablemedicineA hypertrophic skin disorder characterised by rough, dry, thickened skin.

   The majority of them had capillaries dilatation with pigmentation spots. The skin texture of some patients had subtle changes like pachylosis and deepened dermatoglyph, which were invisible for naked eyes.

   2012 August 28, WF Zha, WM Song, JJ Ai, AE Xu, “Mobile connected dermatoscope and confocal laser scanning microscope: a useful combination applied in facial simple sensitive skin.”, in International journal of cosmetic science, volume 34, number 4, page 318

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   As an inordinate production of epidermis dependent on hypertrophy of the papillæ of the skin, it has a title to a place in this group, while its principal character, namly, that of thickening and condensation of the skin, seems to point to pachylosis (καχὸς, crassitudo) as a fitting description.

   1868, Erasmus Wilson, On diseases of the skin