molluscum
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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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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 Thomson, Alexis
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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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 Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
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 Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
The case was really one of large congenital naevus pilosus and fibroma molluscum combined.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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 Ingraham, Jonathon Holt
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
Most of our land mollusca, for instance, are satisfied with meagre provender, and stand extremes of climate well, as long as there is sufficient moisture.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
Contains the air-breathing Gasteropods, and to it consequently belong all the terrestrial mollusca, though some few aquatic genera are also included.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter
These remains were never true coprolites, but mostly formless nodules rich in phosphate of lime, many being sponges, along with abundance of sea-urchins, mollusca, crabs, and innumerable sharks' teeth.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
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