See Also: tinea(dictionary)
Tinea(medicine)
tinea nigra(medicine)
tinea pedis(medicine)
tinea profunda(medicine)
tinea sycosis(medicine)
tinea tonsurans(medicine)
tinea tropicalis(medicine)
tinea unguium(medicine)
tinea versicolor(medicine)

tinea (iou)



tinea noun. LME.
[Latin = gnawing worm or grub, moth, bookworm.]
1. Medicine. = RINGWORM. Freq. with mod. Latin specifying word, as tinea capitis , etc. LME.
(Tinea.) Entomology. Orig., any of various destructive insects and other small creatures. Later spec. a moth of the genus Tinea, the larvae of which are very destructive to cloth, feathers, soft paper, decaying wood, museum specimens, etc., including some common clothes-moths. Now only as mod. Latin genus name. LME.
tineid adjective & noun (a) adjective of or pertaining to the family Tineidae of small moths, including clothes-moths; (b) noun a member of this family: M19.