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 Eponyms in category: Skin - dermatology
 465 main and alternative entries found.
 
Abrikossoff's myoblastoma
Rare, usually benign tumor of the Schwann cells or nerve cells, occurring cutaneously or subcutaneously on any part of the body; also in the skeletal muscles or internal organs.
Abrikossoff’s myoblastoma and tumor (Abrikossoff's myoblastoma)
Rare, usually benign tumor of the Schwann cells or nerve cells, occurring cutaneously or subcutaneously on any part of the body; also in the skeletal muscles or internal organs.
Abrikossoff’s tumor (Abrikossoff's myoblastoma)
Rare, usually benign tumor of the Schwann cells or nerve cells, occurring cutaneously or subcutaneously on any part of the body; also in the skeletal muscles or internal organs.
Abrikossoff’s tumor of skin (Abrikossoff's myoblastoma)
Rare, usually benign tumor of the Schwann cells or nerve cells, occurring cutaneously or subcutaneously on any part of the body; also in the skeletal muscles or internal organs.
Achorion schoenleinii (Schönlein's tricophyton)
A rare form of Trichophyton; a fungus which is the cause of favus.
Adamson's fringe
A site in the hair follicle.
Addison's disease
Disease resulting from progressive destruction of the adrenal gland with deficiency in the secretion of adreno-cortical hormones.
Addison’s melanoderma (Addison's disease)
Disease resulting from progressive destruction of the adrenal gland with deficiency in the secretion of adreno-cortical hormones.
Addison’s syndrome (Addison's disease)
Disease resulting from progressive destruction of the adrenal gland with deficiency in the secretion of adreno-cortical hormones.
Adénomes sébacés de type Hallopeau-Leredde-Darier (French) (Hallopeau's syndrome III)
A skin disorder characterized by formation of sterile pustules surrounded by a hyperaemic base on the axillae, scalp, groin, genitalia, lips, and oral mucosa.
Afzelius' syndrome
Eruption of single lesions of erythema annulare centrifugum, expanding to reach massive extension.
Afzelius's erythema (Afzelius' syndrome)
Eruption of single lesions of erythema annulare centrifugum, expanding to reach massive extension.
Albers-Schönberg’s syndrome (probably misnomer) (Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome)
A rare skin disease characterised by a firm, flesh-coloured or slightly yellowish eruption distributed symmetrically on the trunk and extremities, and induration of the skin and subcutaneous tissues.
Amêndola's syndrome
Pemphigus endemic in Brazil.
Ancell-Spiegler cylindroma (Brooke's epithelioma)
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Ancell’s syndrome (Brooke's epithelioma)
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Andogskiy's syndrome
Chronic eczematous skin lesions from childhood.
Andrews' syndrome
A form of pustulosis palmoplantaris in which there is also a focal infection.
Andrews’ bacterid (Andrews' syndrome)
A form of pustulosis palmoplantaris in which there is also a focal infection.
Andrews’ disease (Andrews' syndrome)
A form of pustulosis palmoplantaris in which there is also a focal infection.
Andrews’ pustulous bacterid (Andrews' syndrome)
A form of pustulosis palmoplantaris in which there is also a focal infection.
Anetodermie Typ Alexander (German) (Schweninger-Buzzi syndrome)
A disturbance occurring almost exclusively in females characterized by symmetric crops of round or oval skin-coloured papules, eventually becoming bluish, soft protuberances (1-2 cm in diameter).
Anetodermie Typ Jadassohn-Pellizzari (German) (Schweninger-Buzzi syndrome)
A disturbance occurring almost exclusively in females characterized by symmetric crops of round or oval skin-coloured papules, eventually becoming bluish, soft protuberances (1-2 cm in diameter).
Angiosarcoma Kaposi (Kaposi's sarcoma)
A particular form of malign, multifocal vascular neoplasm.
Arndt-Gottron scleromyxoedema (Arndt-Gottron syndrome)
A fibromucinous tissue disease that usually appears in 3rd to 5th decades.
Arndt-Gottron syndrome
A fibromucinous tissue disease that usually appears in 3rd to 5th decades.
Arning's carcinoid
Multiple benign, flat tumours of the skin manifested as whitish grey shiny lesions with brownish purple-pigmented areas, usually seen on the face and trunk.
Asboe=Hansen's disease (Bruno Bloch) (Bloch-Sulzberger pigment dermatosis (Bruno Bloch))
A complex congenital disturbance characterized by bizarre, widespread pigmented macules of unusual shapes and defects of teeth, eyes, nails, central nervous system and hair.
Audry’s syndrome I (Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome)
Osteodermopathic syndrome characterized by so-called "bull-dog scalp" lesions, clubbing of the digits; elephantiasis of long bones, enormously large hands and feet; periosteal lesions, fatigability, etc.
Auspitz' symptom
A charactristic, point-shaped bleeding after slight scratching or curetting of a psoriasis scale. Suggests psoriasis, but is not specific.
Baader's dermatostomatitis (Stevens-Johnson syndrome)
A syndrome characterized by severe erythema multiforme-like eruption of the skin and lesions of the oral, genital and anal mucosa, and haemorrhagic crusting on the lips, associated with fever, headache and arthralgia.
Baader's syndrome (Stevens-Johnson syndrome)
A syndrome characterized by severe erythema multiforme-like eruption of the skin and lesions of the oral, genital and anal mucosa, and haemorrhagic crusting on the lips, associated with fever, headache and arthralgia.
Baader-Fiessinger-Stevens-Johnson syndrome (Stevens-Johnson syndrome)
A syndrome characterized by severe erythema multiforme-like eruption of the skin and lesions of the oral, genital and anal mucosa, and haemorrhagic crusting on the lips, associated with fever, headache and arthralgia.
Bael'z disease
A condition in which consumption of large amounts of caretonids cause canary yellow, ochre, or golden pigmentation of the skin.
Bagdad boil
Cutaneous leishmaniasis.
Baker-Rosenbach syndrome (Rosenbach's disease)
A rare disease of traumatized skin consisting of fever and constitutional symptoms, a vesicular eruption especially of the hands and feet, and inflammation of the mucous membranes and orifices.
Bannister’s disease (Quincke's oedema)
A syndrome involving the skin and subcutaneous submucosal tissues, occurring in a hereditary and a sporadic form.
Bannister’s syndrome (Quincke's oedema)
A syndrome involving the skin and subcutaneous submucosal tissues, occurring in a hereditary and a sporadic form.
Barber's dermatosis (Barber's syndrome)
Pustular psoriasis of the extremities, usually of the thenar and hypothenar eminences, adjacent parts of the palms, central parts of the soles, flexor surfaces of fingers and toes, lateral surfaces of the hands and feet, and around the wrists and ankles.
Barber's disease (Barber's syndrome)
Pustular psoriasis of the extremities, usually of the thenar and hypothenar eminences, adjacent parts of the palms, central parts of the soles, flexor surfaces of fingers and toes, lateral surfaces of the hands and feet, and around the wrists and ankles.
Barber's pustular psoriasis of the extremities (Barber's syndrome)
Pustular psoriasis of the extremities, usually of the thenar and hypothenar eminences, adjacent parts of the palms, central parts of the soles, flexor surfaces of fingers and toes, lateral surfaces of the hands and feet, and around the wrists and ankles.
Barber's syndrome
Pustular psoriasis of the extremities, usually of the thenar and hypothenar eminences, adjacent parts of the palms, central parts of the soles, flexor surfaces of fingers and toes, lateral surfaces of the hands and feet, and around the wrists and ankles.
Bayard’s ecchymoses (Tardieu's ecchymoses or spots)
Subpleural spots of ecchymosis following death from strangulation or suffocation.
Beare's syndrome
A syndrome characterized by pili torti, fragile nails, and mental redtardation.
Beare-Dodge-Nevin complex
A very rare disease picture with cutis verticis gyrata, acanthosis nigricans and other congenital anomalies.
Beare-Dodge-Nevin syndrome (Beare-Dodge-Nevin complex)
A very rare disease picture with cutis verticis gyrata, acanthosis nigricans and other congenital anomalies.
Beau's lines
Transverse grooves or lines seen on fingernails following an exhausting disease, usually a sign of systemic disease.
Beau-Reil cross furrows (Beau's lines)
Transverse grooves or lines seen on fingernails following an exhausting disease, usually a sign of systemic disease.
Beck's disease (Beck-Ibrahim disease (Soma Cornelius Beck))
An erythematous, desquamative skin disease of newborn infants.
Beck-Ibrahim disease (Soma Cornelius Beck)
An erythematous, desquamative skin disease of newborn infants.
Becker's melanosis (Becker's naevus)
Acquired unilateral macular melanosis, appearing late in the first decade of life, followed by the growth of coarse, long, dark hair at puberty.
Becker's naevus
Acquired unilateral macular melanosis, appearing late in the first decade of life, followed by the growth of coarse, long, dark hair at puberty.
Becker-Reuter syndrome
A condition characterized by the presence of discrete or confluent brown macules on the neck and forearm.
Besnier's disease (Besnier's prurigo)
A skin disease that usually follows infantile atopic dermatitis.
Besnier's prurigo
A skin disease that usually follows infantile atopic dermatitis.
Blaschko's lines
The pattern assumed by many different naevoid and acquired skin diseases on the human skin and mucosae.
Bloch-Miescher syndrome (Miescher's syndrome)
A familial syndrome characterized by acanthosis nigricans in combination with hypertrichosis, failure to thrive, growth deficiency, lipodystrophylike disorders, insulin-resistant diabetes mellitus, and orofacial deformities with coarse facies.
Bloch-Siemens syndrome (Bruno Bloch) (Bloch-Sulzberger pigment dermatosis (Bruno Bloch))
A complex congenital disturbance characterized by bizarre, widespread pigmented macules of unusual shapes and defects of teeth, eyes, nails, central nervous system and hair.
Bloch-Stauffer dyshormonal syndrome (Rothmund-Thomson syndrome)
A rare hereditary oculocutaneous disorder with erythema, marble skin, pigmentation, telangiectasia, congenital cataracts, defective nails and teeth, partial to total alopecia, short stature, and congenital bone defects.
Bloch-Stauffer syndrome (Rothmund-Thomson syndrome)
A rare hereditary oculocutaneous disorder with erythema, marble skin, pigmentation, telangiectasia, congenital cataracts, defective nails and teeth, partial to total alopecia, short stature, and congenital bone defects.
Bloch-Sulzberger disease (Bruno Bloch) (Bloch-Sulzberger pigment dermatosis (Bruno Bloch))
A complex congenital disturbance characterized by bizarre, widespread pigmented macules of unusual shapes and defects of teeth, eyes, nails, central nervous system and hair.
Bloch-Sulzberger melanoblastosis (Bruno Bloch) (Bloch-Sulzberger pigment dermatosis (Bruno Bloch))
A complex congenital disturbance characterized by bizarre, widespread pigmented macules of unusual shapes and defects of teeth, eyes, nails, central nervous system and hair.
Bloch-Sulzberger pigment dermatosis (Bruno Bloch)
A complex congenital disturbance characterized by bizarre, widespread pigmented macules of unusual shapes and defects of teeth, eyes, nails, central nervous system and hair.
Bourneville's disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease)
A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney.
Bourneville's syndrome (Bourneville-Pringle disease)
A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney.
Bourneville's syndrome
Adenoma sebaceum, tuberous sclerosis, mental deficiency, and convulsions, without the subungual and periungual warty fibromas of Bourneville-Pringle.
Bourneville-Brissaud disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease)
A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney.
Bourneville-Pringle disease
A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney.
Bourneville–Pringle disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease)
A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney.
Brauer's disease (Buschke-Fischer-Brauer syndrome)
A syndrome characterised by keratosis palmaris et plantaris, hair hypoplasia, onycholysis, onychogrypisis, hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet, progeria, apathy, mental retardation, oedema of the eyelids, and xeroderma.
Brauer's syndrome II
Hereditary focal pigmented nevi, similar to forceps lesions, of the forehead and chin associated with either the absence of eyelashes or double rows of eyelashes and aplasia of the sweat glands in the lesions.
Brauer’s syndrome (Buschke-Fischer-Brauer syndrome)
A syndrome characterised by keratosis palmaris et plantaris, hair hypoplasia, onycholysis, onychogrypisis, hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet, progeria, apathy, mental retardation, oedema of the eyelids, and xeroderma.
Brocq's disease II
A chronic form of pityriasis lichenoides characterized by circumscribed plaques or small, brown, scaling papules localized on flexor areas.
Brocq's disease III
A combination of erythema and diffuse brownish pigmentation of the perioral region.
Brocq's phagadena geometricum
Chronic skin ulcers due to mixed bacterial infection.
Brocq's pseudopalade
A slowly progressive scarring disease of the scalp.
Brocq-Debré-Lyell syndrome (Debré-Lamy-Lyell syndrome)
A rare syndrome characterized by a severe bullous eruption of the skin and mucous membranes, fever, malaise, conjunctivitis, and a diffuse erythema.
Brocq-Duhring disease (Duhring's disease)
Polyaetiological syndrome with focal infections, malign tumours and allergic processes.
Brocq’s congenital nonbullous form (Brocq's disease II)
A chronic form of pityriasis lichenoides characterized by circumscribed plaques or small, brown, scaling papules localized on flexor areas.
Brooke's disease (Brooke's epithelioma)
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Brooke's epithelioma
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Brooke's tumour (Brooke's epithelioma)
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Brooke-Fordyce disease (Brooke's epithelioma)
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Brooke-Fordyce trichoepithelioma (Brooke's epithelioma)
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Brooke-Spiegler phakomatosis (Brooke's epithelioma)
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Brooke-Spiegler syndrome (Brooke's epithelioma)
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Brooke’s disease (Morrow-Brooke syndrome)
An apparently infectious skin disease that resembles keratosis follicularis (Darier syndrome).
Brooke’s epidemic acne syndrome (Morrow-Brooke syndrome)
An apparently infectious skin disease that resembles keratosis follicularis (Darier syndrome).
Brooke’s syndrome II (Morrow-Brooke syndrome)
An apparently infectious skin disease that resembles keratosis follicularis (Darier syndrome).
Brugsch's syndrome (same condition plus acromicria) (Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome)
Osteodermopathic syndrome characterized by so-called "bull-dog scalp" lesions, clubbing of the digits; elephantiasis of long bones, enormously large hands and feet; periosteal lesions, fatigability, etc.
Buschke's disease I
A skin disorder prevalent in females, with onset at all ages, characterised by hard nonpitting oedema, usually preceded by a febrile disease such as streptococcal lymphadenitis days or weeks before.
Buschke-Fischer syndrome (Buschke-Fischer-Brauer syndrome)
A syndrome characterised by keratosis palmaris et plantaris, hair hypoplasia, onycholysis, onychogrypisis, hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet, progeria, apathy, mental retardation, oedema of the eyelids, and xeroderma.
Buschke-Fischer-Brauer syndrome
A syndrome characterised by keratosis palmaris et plantaris, hair hypoplasia, onycholysis, onychogrypisis, hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet, progeria, apathy, mental retardation, oedema of the eyelids, and xeroderma.
Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome
A rare skin disease characterised by a firm, flesh-coloured or slightly yellowish eruption distributed symmetrically on the trunk and extremities, and induration of the skin and subcutaneous tissues.
Bäfverstedt syndrome (Spiegler-Fendt sarcoid)
A rare form of benign recurrent tumor of the lymphoreticular tissue.
Cazenave's disease I
Lupus erythematodes.
Cazenave's disease II
A chronic form of symmetrical pemphigus in adults.
Chernogubov's syndrome (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)
An inherited disorder of the elastic connective tissue characterised by hypereleasticity of the skin, hypermobility of the joints due to extremely lax ligaments and tendons, poor wound healing, and cardiac defects.
Christ-Siemens syndrome (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome)
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Christ-Siemens-Weech syndrome (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome)
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Cinderella dermatosis (Ramirez' syndrome)
An acquired skin disease characterized by ash-coloured spot shaped macules of various sizes with shading of greyish pigment, usually found on the scalp, palms, buttocks and extremities.
Csillag's disease (Hallopeau's syndrome I)
A chronic atrophic skin disease prevalent in females, characterized by irregular, firm, mother-of.-pearl or ivory-coloured flat-topped papules with erythematous halos surrounding the white spots.
Csillag’s syndrome (Hallopeau's syndrome I)
A chronic atrophic skin disease prevalent in females, characterized by irregular, firm, mother-of.-pearl or ivory-coloured flat-topped papules with erythematous halos surrounding the white spots.
Cullen’s postoperative serpiginosus ulceration (Brocq's phagadena geometricum)
Chronic skin ulcers due to mixed bacterial infection.
Curth’s syndrome (Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome)
A rare skin disease characterised by a firm, flesh-coloured or slightly yellowish eruption distributed symmetrically on the trunk and extremities, and induration of the skin and subcutaneous tissues.
Danlos’ syndrome (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)
An inherited disorder of the elastic connective tissue characterised by hypereleasticity of the skin, hypermobility of the joints due to extremely lax ligaments and tendons, poor wound healing, and cardiac defects.
Darier erythema (Darier's disease)
Figurate erythema beginning as one or more erythematous or urticaria-like papules which enlarge in a centrifugal fashion to form arcuate, ringed, or polycyclic figures.
Darier's disease (Darier-White syndrome)
A skin disease with onset in childhood.
Darier's disease
Figurate erythema beginning as one or more erythematous or urticaria-like papules which enlarge in a centrifugal fashion to form arcuate, ringed, or polycyclic figures.
Darier's sign
Stroking of the skin results in erythema and oedema in mastocytosis (urticaria pigmentosa).
Darier's syndrome (Darier-White syndrome)
A skin disease with onset in childhood.
Darier-White disease (Darier-White syndrome)
A skin disease with onset in childhood.
Darier-White syndrome
A skin disease with onset in childhood.
Darier’s bullous (Gougerot-Hailey-Hailey disease)
A skin disease affecting both sexes characterized by pemphigus with clusters of small vesicles arising on an erythematous base.
Debre-Fittke syndrome
A syndrome marked by loss of elastisicty of skin and formation of skin folds.
Debré-Lamy-Lyell syndrome
A rare syndrome characterized by a severe bullous eruption of the skin and mucous membranes, fever, malaise, conjunctivitis, and a diffuse erythema.
Devergie's disease
A chronic mildly inflammatory, exfoliative disease of the skin affecting both sexes, with onset at any age.
Dimitri’s hemangiomatosis syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Disseminated clavus of the hands and feet Davies-Colley (Buschke-Fischer-Brauer syndrome)
A syndrome characterised by keratosis palmaris et plantaris, hair hypoplasia, onycholysis, onychogrypisis, hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet, progeria, apathy, mental retardation, oedema of the eyelids, and xeroderma.
Dubreuilh's melanosis (Hutchinson's freckle)
A precancerous condition occurring chiefly during middle and old age.
Dubreulh-Chambardel syndrome (Hutchinson's freckle)
A precancerous condition occurring chiefly during middle and old age.
Duhring's disease
Polyaetiological syndrome with focal infections, malign tumours and allergic processes.
Duhring-Brocq disease (Duhring's disease)
Polyaetiological syndrome with focal infections, malign tumours and allergic processes.
Duhring-Sneddon-Wilkinson syndrome (Sneddon-Wilkinson disease)
Chronic recidivating pustulous dermatosis of unknown origin.
Duhringh's pruritus
A form of pruritus that occurs chiefly during the winter.
Dukes' disease (Clement Dukes) (Dukes-Filatov disease (Clement Dukes))
«The fourth disease after scarlatina, rubella, and morbilli.» An infectious disease of early childhood resembling scarlet fever and German measles, usually occurring during the spring or summer.
Dukes-Filatov disease (Clement Dukes)
«The fourth disease after scarlatina, rubella, and morbilli.» An infectious disease of early childhood resembling scarlet fever and German measles, usually occurring during the spring or summer.
Dupont-Vandaele syndrome (Woringer-Kolopp syndrome)
A rare and chronic skin disease presenting scaling erythematous lesions with dense intraepidermal infiltration characteristic of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
An inherited disorder of the elastic connective tissue characterised by hypereleasticity of the skin, hypermobility of the joints due to extremely lax ligaments and tendons, poor wound healing, and cardiac defects.
Elephant man's syndrome (misnomer) (Recklinghausen's disease)
Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels.
Erythrodermia desquamativa Leiner (Leiner's disease)
Syndrome characterised by severe generalised seborrhoeic dermatitis, recurrent local and systemic infection, severe diarrhoea, marked wasting and central nervous system deficiency.
Esterly-McKusick syndrome
A syndrome marked by flexion contracture of the fingers and toes, limited motion of other joints, and sclerodermatoid changes of the skin.
Feuerstein-Mims syndrome (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome)
A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system.
Fiessinger-Rendu syndrome (Stevens-Johnson syndrome)
A syndrome characterized by severe erythema multiforme-like eruption of the skin and lesions of the oral, genital and anal mucosa, and haemorrhagic crusting on the lips, associated with fever, headache and arthralgia.
Filatov-Dukes disease (Dukes-Filatov disease (Clement Dukes))
«The fourth disease after scarlatina, rubella, and morbilli.» An infectious disease of early childhood resembling scarlet fever and German measles, usually occurring during the spring or summer.
Filatov’s disease (Dukes-Filatov disease (Clement Dukes))
«The fourth disease after scarlatina, rubella, and morbilli.» An infectious disease of early childhood resembling scarlet fever and German measles, usually occurring during the spring or summer.
Fischer's syndrome (Buschke-Fischer-Brauer syndrome)
A syndrome characterised by keratosis palmaris et plantaris, hair hypoplasia, onycholysis, onychogrypisis, hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet, progeria, apathy, mental retardation, oedema of the eyelids, and xeroderma.
Friedreich-Erb-Arnold syndrome (Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome)
Osteodermopathic syndrome characterized by so-called "bull-dog scalp" lesions, clubbing of the digits; elephantiasis of long bones, enormously large hands and feet; periosteal lesions, fatigability, etc.
Fuchs' syndrome (Stevens-Johnson syndrome)
A syndrome characterized by severe erythema multiforme-like eruption of the skin and lesions of the oral, genital and anal mucosa, and haemorrhagic crusting on the lips, associated with fever, headache and arthralgia.
Fuchs-Salzmann-Terrier syndrome (Debré-Lamy-Lyell syndrome)
A rare syndrome characterized by a severe bullous eruption of the skin and mucous membranes, fever, malaise, conjunctivitis, and a diffuse erythema.
Goltz-Gorlin syndrome
A multisystem disorder characterised by complex ectodermal and mesodermal dysplasia with osseous involvement.
Goltz-Peterson-Gorlin-Ravits syndrome (Goltz-Gorlin syndrome)
A multisystem disorder characterised by complex ectodermal and mesodermal dysplasia with osseous involvement.
Goltz’ syndrome (Goltz-Gorlin syndrome)
A multisystem disorder characterised by complex ectodermal and mesodermal dysplasia with osseous involvement.
Gottron's lesions (Gottron's papules)
Eruption of scaling pink to dark red papules over knuckles, elbows, and knees in dermatomyositis.
Gottron's papules
Eruption of scaling pink to dark red papules over knuckles, elbows, and knees in dermatomyositis.
Gottron's syndrome
A familial form of progeria in which the premature aging of the skin and growth retardation are restricted to the hands and feet.
Gougerot's disease
A skin disease characterized by three principal symptoms: erythematous papular lesions, purpuric macules, and dermal or dermohypodermal nodules.
Gougerot's trilogy (Gougerot's disease)
A skin disease characterized by three principal symptoms: erythematous papular lesions, purpuric macules, and dermal or dermohypodermal nodules.
Gougerot's trisymptomatic disease (Gougerot's disease)
A skin disease characterized by three principal symptoms: erythematous papular lesions, purpuric macules, and dermal or dermohypodermal nodules.
Gougerot-Blum capillaritis (Gougerot-Blum disease)
A peculiar form of haemorrhagic pigmentary dermatosis characterized by lichenoid plaques on the legs.
Gougerot-Blum disease
A peculiar form of haemorrhagic pigmentary dermatosis characterized by lichenoid plaques on the legs.
Gougerot-Blum syndrome (Gougerot-Blum disease)
A peculiar form of haemorrhagic pigmentary dermatosis characterized by lichenoid plaques on the legs.
Gougerot-Carteaud papillomatosis
Progressive papillomatosis with onset after puberty.
Gougerot-Carteaud syndrome (Gougerot-Carteaud papillomatosis)
Progressive papillomatosis with onset after puberty.
Gougerot-Duperrat syndrome (Gougerot-Ruiter syndrome)
An allergic skin disease characterized by erythema, papules, vesicles, pustules, exudation, urticarial oedema, cutaneous haemorrhage, telangiectases, and arteriolitis of the cutaneous vessels.
Gougerot-Hailey-Hailey disease
A skin disease affecting both sexes characterized by pemphigus with clusters of small vesicles arising on an erythematous base.
Gougerot-Howers-Sjögren syndrome (Gougerot's disease)
A skin disease characterized by three principal symptoms: erythematous papular lesions, purpuric macules, and dermal or dermohypodermal nodules.
Gougerot-Ruiter syndrome
An allergic skin disease characterized by erythema, papules, vesicles, pustules, exudation, urticarial oedema, cutaneous haemorrhage, telangiectases, and arteriolitis of the cutaneous vessels.
Gougerot-Sjögren syndrome (Henrik Samuel Conrad) (Gougerot's disease)
A skin disease characterized by three principal symptoms: erythematous papular lesions, purpuric macules, and dermal or dermohypodermal nodules.
Gowers' panatrophy
A disturbance marked by development of clearly defined areas of atrophy of skin with disappearance of subcutaneous tissue, prevalent in women.
Greither's keratosis
A syndrome characterised by a symmetrical telangiectasia of the extremities with hyperkeratoris and hyperhidrosis.
Greither's palmoplantar progressive keratoderma (Greither's keratosis)
A syndrome characterised by a symmetrical telangiectasia of the extremities with hyperkeratoris and hyperhidrosis.
Guilford's disease (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome)
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Guilford’s syndrome (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome)
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Hailey-Hailey disease (Gougerot-Hailey-Hailey disease)
A skin disease affecting both sexes characterized by pemphigus with clusters of small vesicles arising on an erythematous base.
Hallopeau's disease (Hallopeau's syndrome I)
A chronic atrophic skin disease prevalent in females, characterized by irregular, firm, mother-of.-pearl or ivory-coloured flat-topped papules with erythematous halos surrounding the white spots.
Hallopeau's disease (Hallopeau's syndrome II)
A chronic form of dermatitis, usually of the hands, and less frequently the feet.
Hallopeau's syndrome I
A chronic atrophic skin disease prevalent in females, characterized by irregular, firm, mother-of.-pearl or ivory-coloured flat-topped papules with erythematous halos surrounding the white spots.
Hallopeau's syndrome II
A chronic form of dermatitis, usually of the hands, and less frequently the feet.
Hallopeau's syndrome III
A skin disorder characterized by formation of sterile pustules surrounded by a hyperaemic base on the axillae, scalp, groin, genitalia, lips, and oral mucosa.
Hallopeau-Leredde syndrome (Hallopeau's syndrome III)
A skin disorder characterized by formation of sterile pustules surrounded by a hyperaemic base on the axillae, scalp, groin, genitalia, lips, and oral mucosa.
Hallopeau-Leredde-Dariér syndrome (Hallopeau's syndrome III)
A skin disorder characterized by formation of sterile pustules surrounded by a hyperaemic base on the axillae, scalp, groin, genitalia, lips, and oral mucosa.
Hallopeau-Siemens syndrome
A destructive form of epidermolysis bullosa with large flaccid bullae developing spontaneously on any part of skin surface, but particularly on the hands, feet, elbows, and knees.
Hanhart's syndrome (Richner-Hanhart syndrome)
A syndrome characterized by keratosis palmaris et plantaris from infancy, with lacrimation, persistent dendritic lesions of the cornea with unaffected corneal sensitivity, photophobia, mental retardation, and self-mutilating behaviour.
Head's zones
Zones of hyperalgesia of skin, associated with visceral disease.
Head’s areas (Head's zones)
Zones of hyperalgesia of skin, associated with visceral disease.
Heberden-Willan disease (Schönlein-Henoch purpura)
A form of anaphylactoid (allergic) or non-thrombopenic purpura which is the most common connective-tissue disorder in children.
Hebra's disease (Devergie's disease)
A chronic mildly inflammatory, exfoliative disease of the skin affecting both sexes, with onset at any age.
Hebra's disease I
Impetigo herpetiformis.
Hebra's disease III
Erythema exudativum multiforme.
Hebra's disease IV
A type of acne seen in debilitated patients.
Hebra's prurigo
A chronic, recurrent skin disorder characterised by intensely pruritic papules and nodules in the trunk and limbs.
Hebra's syndrome (Hebra's prurigo)
A chronic, recurrent skin disorder characterised by intensely pruritic papules and nodules in the trunk and limbs.
Henoch disease (Schönlein-Henoch purpura)
A form of anaphylactoid (allergic) or non-thrombopenic purpura which is the most common connective-tissue disorder in children.
Henoch-Schönlein syndrome (Schönlein-Henoch purpura)
A form of anaphylactoid (allergic) or non-thrombopenic purpura which is the most common connective-tissue disorder in children.
Hermansky's syndrome (Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome)
A hereditary platelet defect resulting in a bleeding tendency, albinism and lung disease.
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
A hereditary platelet defect resulting in a bleeding tendency, albinism and lung disease.
Hopf's keratosis (Hopf's syndrome)
Heritable hyperkeratosis presenting with localized, symmetrical, flat, wartlike epithelial nevi of hand- and footbridges.
Hopf's syndrome
Heritable hyperkeratosis presenting with localized, symmetrical, flat, wartlike epithelial nevi of hand- and footbridges.
Hopf’s syndrome (Hopf's syndrome)
Heritable hyperkeratosis presenting with localized, symmetrical, flat, wartlike epithelial nevi of hand- and footbridges.
Hutchinson's angina
A skin disease characterized by minute vascular ectasies appearing as compressible red or purple punctate lesion, arranged in a serpiginous pattern.
Hutchinson's freckle
A precancerous condition occurring chiefly during middle and old age.
Hutchinson's melanotic disease
A rare disturbance of unknown aetiology with onset in middle to advanced age.
Hutchinson's prurigo
An eruption of nodular and papular, pruritic, urticarialike lesions on parts of the body exposed to the sun.
Hutchinson-Weber-Peutz syndrome (Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)
Gastrointestinal polyposis associated with benign adenomatous tumours and mucocutaneous pigmentation consisting of discrete brown to bluish-black macules about the lips, oral mucosa, and other facial orifices.
Hutchinson’s disease (Hutchinson's angina)
A skin disease characterized by minute vascular ectasies appearing as compressible red or purple punctate lesion, arranged in a serpiginous pattern.
Hutchinson’s melanotic whitlow syndrome (Hutchinson's melanotic disease)
A rare disturbance of unknown aetiology with onset in middle to advanced age.
Hutchinson’s patch (Hutchinson's freckle)
A precancerous condition occurring chiefly during middle and old age.
Hutchinson’s summer prurigo (Hutchinson's prurigo)
An eruption of nodular and papular, pruritic, urticarialike lesions on parts of the body exposed to the sun.
Hutchinson’s syndrome III (Hutchinson's melanotic disease)
A rare disturbance of unknown aetiology with onset in middle to advanced age.
Ibrahim's disease (Beck-Ibrahim disease (Soma Cornelius Beck))
An erythematous, desquamative skin disease of newborn infants.
Iso-Kikuchi syndrome
A hand abnormality.
Jaccoud-like arthropathy
Resorptive arthropathy with episodes of tendon rupture in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Jacquet syndrome (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome)
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Jacquet's erythema (Jacquet's syndrome)
Papulo-lenticular erythema of the napkin area.
Jacquet's syndrome
Papulo-lenticular erythema of the napkin area.
Jacquet’s dermatitis (Jacquet's syndrome)
Papulo-lenticular erythema of the napkin area.
Jacquet’s disease (Jacquet's syndrome)
Papulo-lenticular erythema of the napkin area.
Jadassohn naevus sebaceous (Jadassohn's disease II)
A type of yellowish to orange or tan hairless plaquelike lesions, usually present at birth, most commonly occurring in the scalp or midfacial area, sometimes also affecting the trunk and limbs.
Jadassohn's disease I
A skin disorder marked by lentil-shaped, red papules which at first appear in the elbow area and later spread to other parts of the arm and forearm, including the dorsum of the hand.
Jadassohn's disease II
A type of yellowish to orange or tan hairless plaquelike lesions, usually present at birth, most commonly occurring in the scalp or midfacial area, sometimes also affecting the trunk and limbs.
Jadassohn's disease III
A papular red lesion of the nose associated with hypersudation.
Jadassohn's nevus phakomatosis (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome)
A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system.
Jadassohn-Dössekker disease
Myxoedema tuberosum.
Jadassohn-Lewandowsky syndrome
An ectodermal dysplasia characterised by the association of congenital pachyonychia, hyperhidrosis of the palms and soles, follicular keratosis, palmar and plantar keratosis appearing in 2nd or 3rd year, and leukoplakia of oral and anal mucosa.
Jadassohn-Tièche nevus (Tièche-Jadassohn naevus)
A sharply defined, round or oval, smooth and slightly raised, hard, dark blue, benign melanocytic tumor.
Jadassohn-Tièche syndrome (Tièche-Jadassohn naevus)
A sharply defined, round or oval, smooth and slightly raised, hard, dark blue, benign melanocytic tumor.
Jahnke's syndrome (variant without glaucoma) (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Jeghers' syndrome (Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)
Gastrointestinal polyposis associated with benign adenomatous tumours and mucocutaneous pigmentation consisting of discrete brown to bluish-black macules about the lips, oral mucosa, and other facial orifices.
Jessner's disease (Jessner-Kanof syndrome)
A lymphocytic infiltration of the skin occurring mainly on the face and occasionally appearing on other parts of the body.
Jessner-Cole syndrome (Goltz-Gorlin syndrome)
A multisystem disorder characterised by complex ectodermal and mesodermal dysplasia with osseous involvement.
Jessner-Kanof syndrome
A lymphocytic infiltration of the skin occurring mainly on the face and occasionally appearing on other parts of the body.
Julien Marie syndrome (Marie's syndrome)
A syndrome of pulmonary and cutaneous disturbances in young infants.
Kalischer's syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Kaposi haemangiomatosis (Kaposi's sarcoma)
A particular form of malign, multifocal vascular neoplasm.
Kaposi's angiomatosis (Kaposi's sarcoma)
A particular form of malign, multifocal vascular neoplasm.
Kaposi's dermatitis (Kaposi's varicelliform eruption)
A skin disease characterized by diffuse eruption of umbilicated vesicles and pustules resembling pustulous psoriasis and dermatitis herpetiformis or varicella.
Kaposi's dermatosis
A rare condition characterized mainly by increased sensitivity to sunlight, photophobia.
Kaposi's disease II (Devergie's disease)
A chronic mildly inflammatory, exfoliative disease of the skin affecting both sexes, with onset at any age.
Kaposi's disease III
A rare variant of lichen planus with extensive bullae.
Kaposi's eczema (Kaposi's varicelliform eruption)
A skin disease characterized by diffuse eruption of umbilicated vesicles and pustules resembling pustulous psoriasis and dermatitis herpetiformis or varicella.
Kaposi's sarcoma
A particular form of malign, multifocal vascular neoplasm.
Kaposi's sarcomatosis (Kaposi's sarcoma)
A particular form of malign, multifocal vascular neoplasm.
Kaposi's syndrome (Kaposi's sarcoma)
A particular form of malign, multifocal vascular neoplasm.
Kaposi's varicelliform eruption
A skin disease characterized by diffuse eruption of umbilicated vesicles and pustules resembling pustulous psoriasis and dermatitis herpetiformis or varicella.
Kaposi-Irgang syndrome
A clinical variety of discoid lupus erythematosus.
Kaposi-Juliusberg dermatitis (Kaposi's varicelliform eruption)
A skin disease characterized by diffuse eruption of umbilicated vesicles and pustules resembling pustulous psoriasis and dermatitis herpetiformis or varicella.
Kaposi-Spiegler sarcomatosis (Spiegler-Fendt sarcoid)
A rare form of benign recurrent tumor of the lymphoreticular tissue.
Kaposi’s disease (Kaposi's dermatosis)
A rare condition characterized mainly by increased sensitivity to sunlight, photophobia.
Kartegener's disease
A mild form of pulmonary infiltration occurring in eosinophilia and differing from Löffler disease by its chronic course.
Keratosis palmoplantaris transgrediens Siemens (Meleda syndrome)
A syndrome of marked acanthosis, irregular hyperkeratosis and parakeratosis and perivascular infiltration.
Klauder's syndrome (Stevens-Johnson syndrome)
A syndrome characterized by severe erythema multiforme-like eruption of the skin and lesions of the oral, genital and anal mucosa, and haemorrhagic crusting on the lips, associated with fever, headache and arthralgia.
Klauder’s syndrome I (Rosenbach's disease)
A rare disease of traumatized skin consisting of fever and constitutional symptoms, a vesicular eruption especially of the hands and feet, and inflammation of the mucous membranes and orifices.
Klein-Waardenburg syndrome
A hereditary congenital defect involving pigmentation, lateral displacement of the medial canthi and lacrimal points, and deafness.
Klein’s syndrome (Klein-Waardenburg syndrome)
A hereditary congenital defect involving pigmentation, lateral displacement of the medial canthi and lacrimal points, and deafness.
Klostermann’s syndrome (Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)
Gastrointestinal polyposis associated with benign adenomatous tumours and mucocutaneous pigmentation consisting of discrete brown to bluish-black macules about the lips, oral mucosa, and other facial orifices.
Konigsmark-Hollander-Berlin syndrome
Non-progrediating impairment of hearing in the inner ear in combination with atopic dermatitis.
Krabbe's syndrome II (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Kveim' test
Intra-cutaneous reaction for Boeck’s sarcoid using Kveim antigen.
Kveim-Nickerson skin test (Kveim' test)
Intra-cutaneous reaction for Boeck’s sarcoid using Kveim antigen.
Lawford's syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Lawford’s meningocutaneous syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Leiner's disease
Syndrome characterised by severe generalised seborrhoeic dermatitis, recurrent local and systemic infection, severe diarrhoea, marked wasting and central nervous system deficiency.
Leiner-Moussous disease (Leiner's disease)
Syndrome characterised by severe generalised seborrhoeic dermatitis, recurrent local and systemic infection, severe diarrhoea, marked wasting and central nervous system deficiency.
Leiner’s syndrome (Leiner's disease)
Syndrome characterised by severe generalised seborrhoeic dermatitis, recurrent local and systemic infection, severe diarrhoea, marked wasting and central nervous system deficiency.
Leloir's disease (Cazenave's disease I)
Lupus erythematodes.
Lewandowsky tuberculid
Tuberculosis of the skin.
Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia
A generalized skin disease characterised by multiple papillomavirus-induced scaly macules anywhere on the skin and papules on the back of the hand.
Lewandowsky-Lutz syndrome (Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia)
A generalized skin disease characterised by multiple papillomavirus-induced scaly macules anywhere on the skin and papules on the back of the hand.
Liebermann-Cole syndrome (Goltz-Gorlin syndrome)
A multisystem disorder characterised by complex ectodermal and mesodermal dysplasia with osseous involvement.
Lines of Blaschko (Blaschko's lines)
The pattern assumed by many different naevoid and acquired skin diseases on the human skin and mucosae.
Lipschütz' erythema (Afzelius' syndrome)
Eruption of single lesions of erythema annulare centrifugum, expanding to reach massive extension.
Lipschütz's syndrome (misnomer) (Afzelius' syndrome)
Eruption of single lesions of erythema annulare centrifugum, expanding to reach massive extension.
Lupus de Cazenave (French) (Cazenave's disease I)
Lupus erythematodes.
Lutz-Darier syndrome (Darier-White syndrome)
A skin disease with onset in childhood.
Lutz-Miescher syndrome
A skin disturbance usually localized to the neck; less frequently to upper extremities, face, lower extremities, trunk.
Lutz’ syndrome (Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia)
A generalized skin disease characterised by multiple papillomavirus-induced scaly macules anywhere on the skin and papules on the back of the hand.
Lyell's syndrome (Debré-Lamy-Lyell syndrome)
A rare syndrome characterized by a severe bullous eruption of the skin and mucous membranes, fever, malaise, conjunctivitis, and a diffuse erythema.
Lymphocytic Infiltrate of Jessner (Jessner-Kanof syndrome)
A lymphocytic infiltration of the skin occurring mainly on the face and occasionally appearing on other parts of the body.
Lynch-Wiersma syndrome
A combination of ichtyosis congenita and secondary male hypogonadismus.
Lynch’s syndrome (Lynch-Wiersma syndrome)
A combination of ichtyosis congenita and secondary male hypogonadismus.
Mal de Meleda (Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome)
Symptoms and signs appearing within first 4 years of life include hyperkeratosis of palms and soles, usually diffuse type, seldom punctate type, generally not severe.
Maladie de Bourneville (Bourneville-Pringle disease)
A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney.
Maladie de Dukes-Filatoff ou Filatow (French). (Dukes-Filatov disease (Clement Dukes))
«The fourth disease after scarlatina, rubella, and morbilli.» An infectious disease of early childhood resembling scarlet fever and German measles, usually occurring during the spring or summer.
Marfan's hypermobility syndrome
A syndrome of marfanoid habitus with hypermobility of joints and hyperextensibility of the skin far exceeding the degree usually observed in Marfan’s syndrome.
Marie's syndrome
A syndrome of pulmonary and cutaneous disturbances in young infants.
Meekeren-Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)
An inherited disorder of the elastic connective tissue characterised by hypereleasticity of the skin, hypermobility of the joints due to extremely lax ligaments and tendons, poor wound healing, and cardiac defects.
Meleda syndrome
A syndrome of marked acanthosis, irregular hyperkeratosis and parakeratosis and perivascular infiltration.
Meleda syndrome (Greither's keratosis)
A syndrome characterised by a symmetrical telangiectasia of the extremities with hyperkeratoris and hyperhidrosis.
Meleda syndrome (misnomer) (Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome)
Symptoms and signs appearing within first 4 years of life include hyperkeratosis of palms and soles, usually diffuse type, seldom punctate type, generally not severe.
Meleney’s undermining burrowing ulcer (Brocq's phagadena geometricum)
Chronic skin ulcers due to mixed bacterial infection.
Mende's syndrome
A congenital syndromne combining mongolid habitus, deaf mutism, and pigmentation disorders.
Mende's syndrome II (Klein-Waardenburg syndrome)
A hereditary congenital defect involving pigmentation, lateral displacement of the medial canthi and lacrimal points, and deafness.
Miescher's syndrome (Miescher-Lederer syndrome)
A form of lupoid necrobiosis marked by red to yellowish lupid spots on pressure, usually polycyclic shape, center atrophic, edges indurated.
Miescher's syndrome
A familial syndrome characterized by acanthosis nigricans in combination with hypertrichosis, failure to thrive, growth deficiency, lipodystrophylike disorders, insulin-resistant diabetes mellitus, and orofacial deformities with coarse facies.
Miescher's trichofolliculoma
A benign, organoid, papular tumor of the hair follicle.
Miescher-Lederer syndrome
A form of lupoid necrobiosis marked by red to yellowish lupid spots on pressure, usually polycyclic shape, center atrophic, edges indurated.
Miescher’s syndrome (Lutz-Miescher syndrome)
A skin disturbance usually localized to the neck; less frequently to upper extremities, face, lower extremities, trunk.
Mikulicz' aphthae (Sutton's disease)
A rare, recurrent disease of mucous membranes.
Miller's syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Milton-Quincke syndrome (Quincke's oedema)
A syndrome involving the skin and subcutaneous submucosal tissues, occurring in a hereditary and a sporadic form.
Milton’s urticaria (Quincke's oedema)
A syndrome involving the skin and subcutaneous submucosal tissues, occurring in a hereditary and a sporadic form.
Mljet syndrome (Yugoslav name for Meleda) (Meleda syndrome)
A syndrome of marked acanthosis, irregular hyperkeratosis and parakeratosis and perivascular infiltration.
Morrow-Brooke syndrome
An apparently infectious skin disease that resembles keratosis follicularis (Darier syndrome).
Mortimer malady (Mortimer's disease)
A skin disease characterized, raised, dusky-red patches that spread slowly in an almost ymmmetrical pattern.
Mortimer's disease
A skin disease characterized, raised, dusky-red patches that spread slowly in an almost ymmmetrical pattern.
Mortimer's syndrome (Mortimer's disease)
A skin disease characterized, raised, dusky-red patches that spread slowly in an almost ymmmetrical pattern.
Naevus sebaceous of Jadassohn (Jadassohn's disease II)
A type of yellowish to orange or tan hairless plaquelike lesions, usually present at birth, most commonly occurring in the scalp or midfacial area, sometimes also affecting the trunk and limbs.
Nettleship's syndrome I
A chronic skin disease that usually begins during early childhood.
Nettleship’s disease (Nettleship's syndrome I)
A chronic skin disease that usually begins during early childhood.
Neumann's disease (Isidor Neumann)
A variant of pemphigus vulgaris in which many of the bullous lesions are replaced by malodorous, verucoid, hypertrophic, vegetative masses.
Neumann's syndrome (Isidor Neumann) (Stevens-Johnson syndrome)
A syndrome characterized by severe erythema multiforme-like eruption of the skin and lesions of the oral, genital and anal mucosa, and haemorrhagic crusting on the lips, associated with fever, headache and arthralgia.
Nickerson-Kveim reaction (Kveim' test)
Intra-cutaneous reaction for Boeck’s sarcoid using Kveim antigen.
Nicolas-Moutot-Charlet syndrome
A congenital pemphigoid, mucocutaneous disease.
Ollier-Thiersch graft
A split-thickness skin graft.
Ollier-Thiersch transplant (Ollier-Thiersch graft)
A split-thickness skin graft.
Oppenheim's vazeline
Vaselinoderma verrucosum.
Oppenheim-Urbach disease
A rare skin disease usually observed in diabetic patients and prevalent i females.
Oppenheim-Urbach syndrome (Oppenheim-Urbach disease)
A rare skin disease usually observed in diabetic patients and prevalent i females.
Osler's nodules
Painful indurated areas on the pads of the fingers and toes, the thenar and hypothenar eminences, seen in bacterial endocarditis.
Paget's disease of skin (Paget's extramammary disease)
A rare, malign cancer of the skin involving the same cells as the nipple disease.
Paget's extramammary disease
A rare, malign cancer of the skin involving the same cells as the nipple disease.
Pagetoid epithelioma (Arning's carcinoid)
Multiple benign, flat tumours of the skin manifested as whitish grey shiny lesions with brownish purple-pigmented areas, usually seen on the face and trunk.
Palmoplantar keratoderma of Sybert (Greither's keratosis)
A syndrome characterised by a symmetrical telangiectasia of the extremities with hyperkeratoris and hyperhidrosis.
Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome
Symptoms and signs appearing within first 4 years of life include hyperkeratosis of palms and soles, usually diffuse type, seldom punctate type, generally not severe.
Parkes Weber-Dimitri syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Pautrier microabscess (Pautrier's abscess)
An eosinophil-rich pleomorphic intradermal cellular infiltration with focal collections of reticular cells.
Pautrier's abscess
An eosinophil-rich pleomorphic intradermal cellular infiltration with focal collections of reticular cells.
Pautrier-Woringer syndrome
Adenopathy with lipomelanotic deposits in enlarged lymph nodes occurring in association with a variety of chronic non-specific pruritic skin disorders.
Pellizzari-Jadassohn syndrome (Schweninger-Buzzi syndrome)
A disturbance occurring almost exclusively in females characterized by symmetric crops of round or oval skin-coloured papules, eventually becoming bluish, soft protuberances (1-2 cm in diameter).
Peutz-Jeghers hamartosis (Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)
Gastrointestinal polyposis associated with benign adenomatous tumours and mucocutaneous pigmentation consisting of discrete brown to bluish-black macules about the lips, oral mucosa, and other facial orifices.
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
Gastrointestinal polyposis associated with benign adenomatous tumours and mucocutaneous pigmentation consisting of discrete brown to bluish-black macules about the lips, oral mucosa, and other facial orifices.
Peutz-Klostermann syndrome (Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)
Gastrointestinal polyposis associated with benign adenomatous tumours and mucocutaneous pigmentation consisting of discrete brown to bluish-black macules about the lips, oral mucosa, and other facial orifices.
Peutz-Touraine syndrome (Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)
Gastrointestinal polyposis associated with benign adenomatous tumours and mucocutaneous pigmentation consisting of discrete brown to bluish-black macules about the lips, oral mucosa, and other facial orifices.
Peutz-Touraine-Jeghers syndrome (Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)
Gastrointestinal polyposis associated with benign adenomatous tumours and mucocutaneous pigmentation consisting of discrete brown to bluish-black macules about the lips, oral mucosa, and other facial orifices.
Peutz’ syndrome (Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)
Gastrointestinal polyposis associated with benign adenomatous tumours and mucocutaneous pigmentation consisting of discrete brown to bluish-black macules about the lips, oral mucosa, and other facial orifices.
Pott's cancer
Coal tar-induced cancer of the skin particularly localized to the scrotum.
Pringle's adenoma sebaceum (Bourneville-Pringle disease)
A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney.
Pringle's disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease)
A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney.
Psoriasis pustulosa palmo-plantaris Königsbeck-Barber (Barber's syndrome)
Pustular psoriasis of the extremities, usually of the thenar and hypothenar eminences, adjacent parts of the palms, central parts of the soles, flexor surfaces of fingers and toes, lateral surfaces of the hands and feet, and around the wrists and ankles.
Quincke's oedema
A syndrome involving the skin and subcutaneous submucosal tissues, occurring in a hereditary and a sporadic form.
Quincke’s disease (Quincke's oedema)
A syndrome involving the skin and subcutaneous submucosal tissues, occurring in a hereditary and a sporadic form.
Quincke’s syndrome (Quincke's oedema)
A syndrome involving the skin and subcutaneous submucosal tissues, occurring in a hereditary and a sporadic form.
Ramirez' syndrome
An acquired skin disease characterized by ash-coloured spot shaped macules of various sizes with shading of greyish pigment, usually found on the scalp, palms, buttocks and extremities.
Ramsay Hunt's zone
A delimitated skin area supplied by the ganglion geniculi of the N. Intermedius.
Recklinghausen syndrome (Recklinghausen's disease)
Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels.
Recklinghausen's disease
Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels.
Recklinghausen's phakomatosis (Recklinghausen's disease)
Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels.
Recklinhausen neurofibromatosis (Recklinghausen's disease)
Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels.
Richner's syndrome (Richner-Hanhart syndrome)
A syndrome characterized by keratosis palmaris et plantaris from infancy, with lacrimation, persistent dendritic lesions of the cornea with unaffected corneal sensitivity, photophobia, mental retardation, and self-mutilating behaviour.
Richner-Hanhart syndrome
A syndrome characterized by keratosis palmaris et plantaris from infancy, with lacrimation, persistent dendritic lesions of the cornea with unaffected corneal sensitivity, photophobia, mental retardation, and self-mutilating behaviour.
Robinson's disease
Group of clear vesicles composed of cystic sweat glands usually around the eyes – hydrocystoma.
Rosenbach's disease
A rare disease of traumatized skin consisting of fever and constitutional symptoms, a vesicular eruption especially of the hands and feet, and inflammation of the mucous membranes and orifices.
Rosenbach’s erysipeloid (Rosenbach's disease)
A rare disease of traumatized skin consisting of fever and constitutional symptoms, a vesicular eruption especially of the hands and feet, and inflammation of the mucous membranes and orifices.
Rothmund dystrophy (Rothmund-Thomson syndrome)
A rare hereditary oculocutaneous disorder with erythema, marble skin, pigmentation, telangiectasia, congenital cataracts, defective nails and teeth, partial to total alopecia, short stature, and congenital bone defects.
Rothmund syndrome (Rothmund-Thomson syndrome)
A rare hereditary oculocutaneous disorder with erythema, marble skin, pigmentation, telangiectasia, congenital cataracts, defective nails and teeth, partial to total alopecia, short stature, and congenital bone defects.
Rothmund-Thomson syndrome
A rare hereditary oculocutaneous disorder with erythema, marble skin, pigmentation, telangiectasia, congenital cataracts, defective nails and teeth, partial to total alopecia, short stature, and congenital bone defects.
Roy's syndrome (Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome)
Osteodermopathic syndrome characterized by so-called "bull-dog scalp" lesions, clubbing of the digits; elephantiasis of long bones, enormously large hands and feet; periosteal lesions, fatigability, etc.
Roy-Jutras syndrome (Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome)
Osteodermopathic syndrome characterized by so-called "bull-dog scalp" lesions, clubbing of the digits; elephantiasis of long bones, enormously large hands and feet; periosteal lesions, fatigability, etc.
Ruiter's disease (Gougerot-Ruiter syndrome)
An allergic skin disease characterized by erythema, papules, vesicles, pustules, exudation, urticarial oedema, cutaneous haemorrhage, telangiectases, and arteriolitis of the cutaneous vessels.
Ruiter’s syndrome (Gougerot-Ruiter syndrome)
An allergic skin disease characterized by erythema, papules, vesicles, pustules, exudation, urticarial oedema, cutaneous haemorrhage, telangiectases, and arteriolitis of the cutaneous vessels.
Sack-Barabas syndrome (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)
An inherited disorder of the elastic connective tissue characterised by hypereleasticity of the skin, hypermobility of the joints due to extremely lax ligaments and tendons, poor wound healing, and cardiac defects.
Sack’s syndrome (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)
An inherited disorder of the elastic connective tissue characterised by hypereleasticity of the skin, hypermobility of the joints due to extremely lax ligaments and tendons, poor wound healing, and cardiac defects.
Savill's disease
Savill’s syndrome (Savill's disease)
Savill’s syndrome (Sulzberger-Garbe syndrome)
A syndrome of chronic exudative discoid and lichenoid dermatitis and a severe, nocturnal pruritus.
Schamberg's dermatosis (Schamberg's disease)
A progressive pigmentary dermatosis with purpuric eruption, usually in males, affecting chiefly the lower extremities, occasionally other parts of the body.
Schamberg's disease
A progressive pigmentary dermatosis with purpuric eruption, usually in males, affecting chiefly the lower extremities, occasionally other parts of the body.
Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome (Jadassohn's disease II)
A type of yellowish to orange or tan hairless plaquelike lesions, usually present at birth, most commonly occurring in the scalp or midfacial area, sometimes also affecting the trunk and limbs.
Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome
A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system.
Schimmelpenning’s syndrome (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome)
A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system.
Schirmer's syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Schreus' syndrome (Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome)
A rare skin disease characterised by a firm, flesh-coloured or slightly yellowish eruption distributed symmetrically on the trunk and extremities, and induration of the skin and subcutaneous tissues.
Schweninger-Buzzi syndrome
A disturbance occurring almost exclusively in females characterized by symmetric crops of round or oval skin-coloured papules, eventually becoming bluish, soft protuberances (1-2 cm in diameter).
Schönlein purpura (Schönlein-Henoch purpura)
A form of anaphylactoid (allergic) or non-thrombopenic purpura which is the most common connective-tissue disorder in children.
Schönlein's disease
An allergic or anaphylactic purpura occurring in individuals, especially children, with drug sensitivities, serum sickness, and other allergic disorders.
Schönlein's tricophyton
A rare form of Trichophyton; a fungus which is the cause of favus.
Schönlein-Henoch disease (Schönlein-Henoch purpura)
A form of anaphylactoid (allergic) or non-thrombopenic purpura which is the most common connective-tissue disorder in children.
Schönlein-Henoch purpura
A form of anaphylactoid (allergic) or non-thrombopenic purpura which is the most common connective-tissue disorder in children.
Schönlein-Henoch syndrome (Schönlein-Henoch purpura)
A form of anaphylactoid (allergic) or non-thrombopenic purpura which is the most common connective-tissue disorder in children.
Seidlmayer's purpura
A manifestation of purpura which occurs especially in infants or children after episodes of infections.
Seidlmayer-Kokardenpurpura (German) (Seidlmayer's purpura)
A manifestation of purpura which occurs especially in infants or children after episodes of infections.
Seidlmayer’s disease (Seidlmayer's purpura)
A manifestation of purpura which occurs especially in infants or children after episodes of infections.
Seidlmayer’s syndrome (Seidlmayer's purpura)
A manifestation of purpura which occurs especially in infants or children after episodes of infections.
Shulman's syndrome
A syndrome characterised by acute onset of erythema and later induration of the connective tissues of the extremities, but sparing the hands, usually appearing following exertion.
Siemens syndrome III (Meleda syndrome)
A syndrome of marked acanthosis, irregular hyperkeratosis and parakeratosis and perivascular infiltration.
Siemens' syndrome I
A familial form of keratosis involving the face, neck, forearms, ears, palms and soles, and backs of the hands.
Siemens-Bloch pigmented dermatosis (Bruno Bloch) (Bloch-Sulzberger pigment dermatosis (Bruno Bloch))
A complex congenital disturbance characterized by bizarre, widespread pigmented macules of unusual shapes and defects of teeth, eyes, nails, central nervous system and hair.
Siemens-Bloch-Sulzberger disease (Bruno Bloch) (Bloch-Sulzberger pigment dermatosis (Bruno Bloch))
A complex congenital disturbance characterized by bizarre, widespread pigmented macules of unusual shapes and defects of teeth, eyes, nails, central nervous system and hair.
Siemens’ dermatosis (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome)
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Siemens’ syndrome (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome)
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Sneddon syndrome (Sneddon-Wilkinson disease)
Chronic recidivating pustulous dermatosis of unknown origin.
Sneddon's syndrome (Sneddon-Champion syndrome)
A syndrome of livedo reticularis and cerebrovascular lesions with livedo involved in all the extremities and the trunk, etc.
Sneddon-Champion syndrome
A syndrome of livedo reticularis and cerebrovascular lesions with livedo involved in all the extremities and the trunk, etc.
Sneddon-Wilkinson disease
Chronic recidivating pustulous dermatosis of unknown origin.
Solomon's syndrome (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome)
A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system.
Solomon-Fretzin-Dewald syndrome (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome)
A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system.
Spanlang-Tappeiner syndrome
A syndrome of congenital zonular corneal opacity with hyperkeratosis of palms and soles, and alopecia.
Spiegler's syndrome (Brooke's epithelioma)
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Spiegler-Fendt sarcoid
A rare form of benign recurrent tumor of the lymphoreticular tissue.
Spiegler-Fendt sarcomatosis (Spiegler-Fendt sarcoid)
A rare form of benign recurrent tumor of the lymphoreticular tissue.
Spiegler’s tumour (Brooke's epithelioma)
A usually benign skin disease most commonly occurring on the face, around the eyelids and on the scalp.
Stevens-Baader-Fiessinger-Johnson syndrome (Stevens-Johnson syndrome)
A syndrome characterized by severe erythema multiforme-like eruption of the skin and lesions of the oral, genital and anal mucosa, and haemorrhagic crusting on the lips, associated with fever, headache and arthralgia.
Stevens-Johnson syndrome
A syndrome characterized by severe erythema multiforme-like eruption of the skin and lesions of the oral, genital and anal mucosa, and haemorrhagic crusting on the lips, associated with fever, headache and arthralgia.
Stryker-Halbeisen syndrome (Garold Vernon Stryker)
Obsolete term for an association of macrocytic anaemia with vitamin B complex deficiency dermatosis.
Sturge's syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Sturge-Kalischer-Weber syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Sturge-Parkes Weber-Dimitri syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Sturge-Weber syndrome
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Sturge-Weber-Krabbe syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Sturge-Weber-Thoma syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Sulzberger-Garbe syndrome
A syndrome of chronic exudative discoid and lichenoid dermatitis and a severe, nocturnal pruritus.
Sutton's disease
A rare, recurrent disease of mucous membranes.
Sutton's halo naevus (Sutton's naevus)
A skin disorder characterized by a sharply defined halo of hypomelanosis developing around a cutaneous nevus in the process of destruction.
Sutton's naevus
A skin disorder characterized by a sharply defined halo of hypomelanosis developing around a cutaneous nevus in the process of destruction.
Sutton's phenomenon
The loss or disappearance of pigments in Sutton's naevus.
Sutton's syndrome (Sutton's disease)
A rare, recurrent disease of mucous membranes.
Sutton's ulcer (Sutton's disease)
A rare, recurrent disease of mucous membranes.
Sutton's ulcer
A solitary, deep, painful ulcer of the buccal or genital mucous membrane.
Sutton’s after (Sutton's disease)
A rare, recurrent disease of mucous membranes.
Sweet's disease (Sweet's syndrome)
A skin disease of unknown aetiology characterized by fever, painful plaques on the limbs, face, and neck; neutrophilic leukocytosis; and dense dermal infiltration with mature neutrophilic polymorphs.
Sweet's syndrome
A skin disease of unknown aetiology characterized by fever, painful plaques on the limbs, face, and neck; neutrophilic leukocytosis; and dense dermal infiltration with mature neutrophilic polymorphs.
Taenzer's syndrome
A skin disease characterized by follicular red papules beginning in the eyebrows, spreading to neighbouring areas of the face and scalp, falling out of hair, and scarring.
Tardieu's ecchymoses or spots
Subpleural spots of ecchymosis following death from strangulation or suffocation.
Tarral-Besnier disease (Devergie's disease)
A chronic mildly inflammatory, exfoliative disease of the skin affecting both sexes, with onset at any age.
Tarral-Besnier syndrome (Devergie's disease)
A chronic mildly inflammatory, exfoliative disease of the skin affecting both sexes, with onset at any age.
Thiersch' graft
A method of split skin grafting using epidermis and a portion of the dermis.
Thomson's syndrome
A syndrome in the group of poikilodermias, with complex ecto- and mesodermal development disturbances.
Thomson-Rothmund syndrome (Rothmund-Thomson syndrome)
A rare hereditary oculocutaneous disorder with erythema, marble skin, pigmentation, telangiectasia, congenital cataracts, defective nails and teeth, partial to total alopecia, short stature, and congenital bone defects.
Thurman’s syndrome (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome)
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Tièche-Jadassohn naevus
A sharply defined, round or oval, smooth and slightly raised, hard, dark blue, benign melanocytic tumor.
Touraine's syndrome I
Neurocutaneous phacomatosis with spread of naevus cells in the skin and diffuse or circumscribed pigmentation of the leptomeninges by naevus cells.
Touraine's syndrome III
A familial, possibly autosomal dominant disorder in which facial freckles are associated with mental retardation.
Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome
Osteodermopathic syndrome characterized by so-called "bull-dog scalp" lesions, clubbing of the digits; elephantiasis of long bones, enormously large hands and feet; periosteal lesions, fatigability, etc.
Touraine’s polykeratosis (Siemens' syndrome I)
A familial form of keratosis involving the face, neck, forearms, ears, palms and soles, and backs of the hands.
Toyama's syndrome
A skin disease characterized by well-defined, brown, scaly, perfectly circular patches of various diameters.
Trichophyton schoenleinii (Schönlein's tricophyton)
A rare form of Trichophyton; a fungus which is the cause of favus.
trisymptôme de Gougerot (French) (Gougerot's disease)
A skin disease characterized by three principal symptoms: erythematous papular lesions, purpuric macules, and dermal or dermohypodermal nodules.
Uehlinger's syndrome (Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome)
Osteodermopathic syndrome characterized by so-called "bull-dog scalp" lesions, clubbing of the digits; elephantiasis of long bones, enormously large hands and feet; periosteal lesions, fatigability, etc.
Unna's disease
A chronic disease of the skin characterised by seborrhea of the scalp and the sebaceous follicle-rich areas of the face and trunk.
Unna's seborrhoeic eczema (Unna's disease)
A chronic disease of the skin characterised by seborrhea of the scalp and the sebaceous follicle-rich areas of the face and trunk.
Unna-Taenzer disease (Taenzer's syndrome)
A skin disease characterized by follicular red papules beginning in the eyebrows, spreading to neighbouring areas of the face and scalp, falling out of hair, and scarring.
Urbach’s syndrome (Oppenheim-Urbach disease)
A rare skin disease usually observed in diabetic patients and prevalent i females.
Van Bogaert-Divry syndrome
A familial syndrome characterised by angiomatosis of skin and cerebral meninges with progressive demyelinisation of white matter, hemianopsia and cutis marmorata due to telangiectases.
Van der Hoeve-Halbertsma-Gualdi syndrome (Klein-Waardenburg syndrome)
A hereditary congenital defect involving pigmentation, lateral displacement of the medial canthi and lacrimal points, and deafness.
van der Hoeve-Halbertsma-Waardenburg syndrome (Klein-Waardenburg syndrome)
A hereditary congenital defect involving pigmentation, lateral displacement of the medial canthi and lacrimal points, and deafness.
van der Hoeve-Waardenburg-Klein syndrome (Klein-Waardenburg syndrome)
A hereditary congenital defect involving pigmentation, lateral displacement of the medial canthi and lacrimal points, and deafness.
Van Meekeren’s syndrome I (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)
An inherited disorder of the elastic connective tissue characterised by hypereleasticity of the skin, hypermobility of the joints due to extremely lax ligaments and tendons, poor wound healing, and cardiac defects.
Vidal's method
Scarification therapy for lupus.
Vidal-Jacquet syndrome
Blenhorragic rheumatism associated with keratoris palmaris et plantaris.
Vogt’s syndrome (Cécile Vogt) (Klein-Waardenburg syndrome)
A hereditary congenital defect involving pigmentation, lateral displacement of the medial canthi and lacrimal points, and deafness.
von Hebra syndrome (Hebra's prurigo)
A chronic, recurrent skin disorder characterised by intensely pruritic papules and nodules in the trunk and limbs.
von Recklinghausen neuropathy (Recklinghausen's disease)
Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels.
von Recklinghausen's disease (Recklinghausen's disease)
Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels.
von Zumbusch’s syndrome (Hallopeau's syndrome I)
A chronic atrophic skin disease prevalent in females, characterized by irregular, firm, mother-of.-pearl or ivory-coloured flat-topped papules with erythematous halos surrounding the white spots.
Waardenburg's syndrome II (Klein-Waardenburg syndrome)
A hereditary congenital defect involving pigmentation, lateral displacement of the medial canthi and lacrimal points, and deafness.
Ward's syndrome I
A syndrome of multiple nevoid basal cell carcinomata associated with dyskeratosis palmaris et plantaris.
Wardrop's disease
Acute inflammation of the nail bed (matrix) with fetid ulceration and loss of the nail.
Weber's syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Weber-Dimitri syndrome (Sturge-Weber syndrome)
A congenital disorder involving the brain, skin and eyes.
Wedderburn's syndrome (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome)
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Weech’s syndrome (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome)
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Werther’s syndrome (Gougerot-Ruiter syndrome)
An allergic skin disease characterized by erythema, papules, vesicles, pustules, exudation, urticarial oedema, cutaneous haemorrhage, telangiectases, and arteriolitis of the cutaneous vessels.
White's disease (Darier-White syndrome)
A skin disease with onset in childhood.
White’s syndrome (Darier-White syndrome)
A skin disease with onset in childhood.
Wickham's striae
Characteristic, fine, white or grey lines or dots seen on the top of the pruritic papular rash of lichen planus.
Willan's lepra
A chronic, occasionally acute inflammatory disease of the skin.
Willan's syndrome (Willan's lepra)
A chronic, occasionally acute inflammatory disease of the skin.
Willan-Plumbe syndrome (Willan's lepra)
A chronic, occasionally acute inflammatory disease of the skin.
Winer's dilated pore
A hair structure anomaly that appears as an enlarged solitary comedo, most commonly on the face, predominantly on the upper lip, cheek, or forehead of a middle-aged person
Winer’s pore (Winer's dilated pore)
A hair structure anomaly that appears as an enlarged solitary comedo, most commonly on the face, predominantly on the upper lip, cheek, or forehead of a middle-aged person
Woringer-Kolopp disease (Woringer-Kolopp syndrome)
A rare and chronic skin disease presenting scaling erythematous lesions with dense intraepidermal infiltration characteristic of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Woringer-Kolopp syndrome
A rare and chronic skin disease presenting scaling erythematous lesions with dense intraepidermal infiltration characteristic of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Zumbusch’s syndrome (Hallopeau's syndrome I)
A chronic atrophic skin disease prevalent in females, characterized by irregular, firm, mother-of.-pearl or ivory-coloured flat-topped papules with erythematous halos surrounding the white spots.
 

 
 

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