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/ɹˈɪŋwɜːm/
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NOUN
- infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches
How To Use ringworm In A Sentence
- The Navajo made a tea of spotted coralroot used as a lotion for ringworm or skin disease.
- Vaccinations help prevent some virus infections. rabies animal bites warts touch fungus ringworm athlete's foot jock itch by touch or from clothing sulfur and vinegar ointments: undecylenic, benzoic, salicylic acid griseofulvin internal parasites (harmful animals living in the body) Chapter 9
- Prisoners were also paid small fees to be infected with ringworm, warts, herpes, staph, and other bacteria.
- Lice, malaria, ringworm, typhoid, and dysentery were rampant.
- It will be sufficient here to refer to the forms, achorion, trichophyton, oïdium, aspergillus, and the diseases produced by them, favus, ringworm, and thrush, to show this peculiarity. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881
- Many's the baby in arms was cured of the thrush and many's the old man was cured of the ringworm in a public house snug by the genuine and original faith healers who would receive a bottle of stout as payment.
- I cured a ringworm and lanced a whitlow under a thumbnail. River God
- Ringworm (rather inflammatory type, and produced by the trichophyton).] Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
- [2] Trachoma and other contagious eye diseases, ringworm, impetigo, scabies, favus, and pediculosis; excluded only for persistent nontreatment. Civics and Health
- Why it is called ringworm is because as it grows bigger, the ones in the middle of the rash die, and forms a ring, thus called ringworm. Jaimewolf Diary Entry