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• Scaly-sided Merganser — Adult male Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• scaly leg — also scaly legs n a disease of poultry that is transmitted by a mite of the genus Knemidokoptes (K. mutans) and that produces an abnormal rough hard scaliness on the featherless parts of the legs * * * a type of mange in fowls in which the legs… …   Medical dictionary

• eczema — Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin, particularly with vesiculation in the acute stage, typically erythematous, edematous, papular, and crusting; followed often by lichenification and sc …   Medical dictionary

• eczema — noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek ekzema, from ekzein to erupt, from ex out + zein to boil more at ex , yeast Date: circa 1753 an inflammatory condition of the skin characterized by redness, itching, and oozing vesicular lesions which become… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Vulvovaginal health — is the health and sanitation of the human female vulva and vagina. ConditionsProblems affecting this area include: *Infection with Candida albicans (candidiasis or yeast infection ) *Bacterial vaginosis (BV) associated with the Gardnerella ,… …   Wikipedia

• Coccoloba diversifolia — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) …   Wikipedia

• pityriasis rubra pilaris — pityriasis ru·bra pi·lar·is rü brə pi lar əs n a chronic dermatitis characterized by the formation of papular horny plugs in the hair follicles and pinkish macules which tend to spread and become scaly plaques * * * a chronic, inflammatory,… …   Medical dictionary

• mosshorn — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun or mossyhorn ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ chiefly West : a longhorn steer so old that its horns have become scaly …   Useful english dictionary

• ex|fo|li|ate — «ehks FOH lee ayt», verb, at|ed, at|ing. –v.i. 1. to come off in scales or layers; peel. 2. to become scaly or layered: »Gypsum exfoliates when placed before a blowpipe. 3. to throw off sc …   Useful english dictionary

• fern — fernless, adj. fernlike, adj. /ferrn/, n. any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a… …   Universalium

• Fern — /ferrn/, n. a female given name. * * * Any of about 10,000–12,000 species (division Filicophyta) of nonflowering vascular plants that have true roots, stems, and complex leaves and reproduce by spores. Though ferns were once classified with the… …   Universalium