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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It is considered by some authors as allied to molluscum fibrosum, and, in fact, as a manifestation of that disease, ordinary molluscum tumors sometimes being associated with it.
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
Such epidermic anomalies as ichthyosis, scleroderma, and molluscum simplex, sometimes appearing shortly after birth, but generally seen later in life, will be spoken of in the chapter on Anomalous Skin Diseases.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
From molluscum contagiosum, neuroma and lipoma; the first is differentiated by its central aperture or depression, neuroma by its painfulness, and lipoma by its lobulated character and soft feel.
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 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
What are the diagnostic points in molluscum epitheliale?
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
These ancient rocks contain abundant remains of living things, chiefly mollusca, crustaceans, corals, and other marine organisms, showing that the waters of those ages abounded with life.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil Hughes
It feeds on fish, carrion, fish-spawn, oceanic mollusca, and other small marine animals.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
Fossil mollusca are abundant, and fossil fish are to be found, as well as the Palaeophis, a sea-snake.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
These animals have not an internal skeleton, like the vertebrata; nor are they wholly destitute of a skeleton, as are the mollusca.
From Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
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
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