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Webster 1913 Edition

Tinea

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Tin′e-a

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Noun.

[L., a worm, a moth.]

1.

(Med.)

A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See

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2.

(Zool.)

A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.