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Tinea (medicine)


tinea


1. <medicine> A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.

2. <zoology> A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.

Origin: L, a worm, a moth.

Source: Websters Dictionary