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Definition of Favus

1. Noun. A contagious fungal infection of the scalp; occurs mainly in Africa and the Middle East.

Definition of Favus

1. n. A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.

Definition of Favus

1. a skin disease [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Favus

1. 1. A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite. 2. A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement. Synonym: favas and sectila. Origin: L, honeycomb. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Favus

favouring favourite favourite(a) favourite son favouritism favours favous Favre's dystrophy Favre-Durand-Nicholas disease Favre-Racouchet's disease

Favre-Racouchot syndrome favrile favriles favulariate favus (current term) favus (current term) favuses faw Fawkes fawn

fawn fawned fawner fawners fawnier fawniest fawning fawningly fawnings fawnlike

Literary usage of Favus

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1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"Cultures prepared from crusts experimentally obtained differ slightly from those employed to produce the crusts. The apparently different favus cultures ..."

2. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1892)
"These differences—which would strike at once even those who have not had much experience of favus—I demonstrated with Dr. Williams' kind permission, ..."

3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1891)
"Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson records a very severe example of favus, with peculiarities, occurring in a boy of fourteen, who presented the following condition. ..."

4. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"favus of fowls is a contagious skin disease of chickens which chiefly affects the unfeathered portion of the integument of the head, producing a mouldy ..."

5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1879)
"OF the different forms of epiphytic disease of the skin, favus is by far the rarest, and except at large hospitals or in special institutions the ..."

6. On Diseases of the Skin, Including the Exanthemata by Ferdinand Hebra, Charles Hilton Fagge, Moriz Kaposi (1880)
"The conformation of the favus body can now easily be understood from the local ... Owing to the continued growth of the favus mass, the epidermic layers ..."

7. On Diseases of the Skin by Erasmus Wilson (1857)
"To these, the special characters of favus, may be added, ... favus is a disease of the scalp ; but, in some few instances, has been observed on other parts ..."

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