vitiligo

[vit-l-ahy-goh, -ee-goh]

noun Pathology.

a skin disorder characterized by smooth, white patches on various parts of the body, caused by the loss of the natural pigment.

Origin of vitiligo

1650–60; < Latin vitilīgō form of skin eruption, apparently equivalent to *vitil(is) defective (vit(ium) blemish + -ilis -ile) + -īgō noun suffix

Also called leukoderma, piebald skin.

Related formsvit·i·lig·i·nous

[vit-l-ij-uh-nuh s] /ˌvɪt lˈɪdʒ ə nəs/, adjectivevit·i·li·goid, adjective

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Examples from the Web for vitiligo

Contemporary Examples of vitiligo

Did he really have vitiligo or was he just bleaching his skin?
The Anti-Oprah
Kevin Sessums
July 12, 2009

Historical Examples of vitiligo

It is not to be confounded with vitiligo, chloasma, or the macular syphiloderm.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin
Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Vitiligo and lichens are deformities of the skin, but they are curable.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)
Charles Creighton

British Dictionary definitions for vitiligo

vitiligo

noun

another name for leucoderma

Word Origin for vitiligo

C17: from Latin: a skin disease, probably from vitium a blemish

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Word Origin and History for vitiligo

1650s, from Latin vitiglio "a kind of cutaneous eruption, tetter."

vitiligo in Medicine

vitiligo

[vĭt′l-ī′gō, -ē′gō]

n. pl. vit•i•li•gos

leukoderma