molluscum
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mollusca
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Origin of molluscum
1805–15; < New Latin, Latin: fungus, noun use of neuter of molluscus soft; akin to mollis soft
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Below each scapula there were tumors of the nature of fibroma molluscum.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
In some cases molluscum fibrosum is associated with pigmentation of the skin and with multiple tumours of the nerve-trunks.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
The multiple, soft fibroma known as molluscum fibrosum, which depends upon a neuro-fibromatosis of the cutaneous nerves, is described with the tumours of nerves.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
It is to be differentiated from molluscum fibrosum, warts and acne.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
The case was really one of large congenital naevus pilosus and fibroma molluscum combined.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
In describing the brain, he states that all red-blooded animals have that organ, as have also the mollusca, and that in man it is largest and most humid.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
This animal is a genus of the mollusca tribe, which glitters in the night on the crest of every bursting wave.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Joseph Holt Ingraham
His chief work was the description of the invertebrate fossils of New York—in which he dealt with the graptolites, brachiopods, mollusca, trilobites, echini and crinoids of the Palaeozoic formations.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
These resemble in properties and colour, the clay so abundant in this region; a great proportion of the gravel is composed of a petrifaction of clay and minute shells, of the mollusca tribe.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
Imbedded in the same matrix occur several genera of mollusca undistinguishable from those inhabiting Maryvale Creek.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer
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