Sentence example with the word 'tinea'

tinea

Definition n. infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches

Last update: September 16, 2015


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Place in corn and flour from the presence of the larvae of the Mediterranean flour moth (Ephestia kuniella); while furs and clothes are often ruined by the clothes moth (Tinea trapezella).   [Please select]

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Tinea favosa comes from another fungus, the _Achorion schönleinii.   [Please select]

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] The housewife must now guard against the intrusion of Clothes moths (Tinea), while many other species of minute moths (Tineids) and of Leaf-rollers (Tortricidæ) will be flying about orchards and gardens just as the buds are beginning to unfold; especially the Coddling moth (Carpocapsa pomonella).   [Please select]

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The form known as tinea tonsurans is produced by the presence of a minute or microscopic fungus--the _Trichophyton tonsurans_, which affects the hair and the epidermic layer of the skin, and is highly contagious, being readily transmitted from one animal to another.   [Please select]

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