sycosis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sycosis
1570–80; < New Latin < Greek sȳ́kōsis, equivalent to sŷk ( on ) fig + -ōsis -osis
Example Sentences
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The next miasmatic generator is sycosis, or the disposition to warty excrescences; but this source of disease Hahnemann does not consider so prolific as syphilis, or his favourite psora.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
How would you exclude tinea sycosis in the diagnosis?
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
Treatment, which is usually unsatisfactory, consists of stimulating applications—the same, in fact, as employed in sycosis, sulphur and ichthyol deserving special mention.
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
Secondary Causes Hereditary and constitutional taints of sycosis, scrofula, psora, syphilis; mercurianism, cinchonism, iodism and many other forms of chronic poisoning.
From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry
Circumscribed epidermic elevations containing pus; as, for example, the pustules of acne, of impetigo, and of sycosis.
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
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