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Webster 1913 Edition

Xeroderma

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Xeˊro-der′ma

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ξηρόσ

dry +

δέρμα

skin.]

(Med.)

(a)

Ichthyosis.

(b)

A skin disease characterized by the presence of numerous small pigmented spots resembling freckles, with which are subsequently mingled spots of atrophied skin.