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🩹 A skin ring 🎖️ A medal ribbon 👗 A small collar
collarette

collarette

9.9
A narrow ring of loose skin or flakes around the edge of a rash
  • noun
  • /ˌkɒləˈrɛt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : collareta
  • The doctor noticed a collarette of scale forming around the healing rash.

Examples

  • A faint collarette was visible at the edge of the patient's skin lesion.

  • The presence of a collarette can help in diagnosing certain skin conditions.

  • Look at that collarette!

  • The collarette looks bad.

  • The doctor noticed a collarette of scale forming around the healing rash.

  • A faint collarette was visible at the edge of the patient's skin lesion.

  • The presence of a collarette can help in diagnosing certain skin conditions.

How Wide

rim
96 1.0
band
108 1.0
collarette
  • Specialized
9.9
line
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

collarette singular
collarettes plural

Morphology

collarette = collar (semi-transparent) = collar + ette

The form is clearly 'collar' + '-ette' (a small or diminutive collar), but the medical sense 'ring of scale around a lesion' is a metaphorical extension that may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Collarette comes from collar + -ette ('small'). A collarette in medicine is a narrow ring of loose scale that sits like a little collar around a rash, so the name helps you picture a 'small collar' at the edge of the lesion.