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🐖 Animal skin disease 🧬 Cell change in skin
parakeratosis

parakeratosis

9.9
A skin disease in farm animals, often pigs, that causes thick, scaly, red, sore skin from lack of zinc
  • noun
  • /ˌpærəˌkɛrəˈtoʊsɪs/
  • Specialized
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  • The veterinarian diagnosed the pig with parakeratosis after noticing its rough, scaly skin.

Examples

  • Proper nutrition can help prevent parakeratosis in young farm animals.

  • Farmers learned to recognize the signs of parakeratosis to treat their livestock early.

  • The veterinarian diagnosed the pig with parakeratosis.

  • Farmers should be aware of parakeratosis in their livestock.

  • The veterinarian diagnosed the pig with parakeratosis after noticing its rough, scaly skin.

  • Proper nutrition can help prevent parakeratosis in young farm animals.

  • Farmers learned to recognize the signs of parakeratosis to treat their livestock early.

Surface Forms

parakeratosis singular
parakeratoses plural

Morphology

parakeratosis = keratosis (opaque) = para + kerat + osis

The word is built on the technical base 'keratosis', but the veterinary disease sense is not readily predictable from the parts for an average learner.

Etymology

Parakeratosis comes from parts that help explain the disease: para- meaning 'abnormal', kerat- meaning 'horn' or 'hard skin' and seen in the word keratin, and -osis meaning 'condition'. So parakeratosis is an 'abnormal hard-skin condition', which fits the thick, scaly, inflamed skin often seen in pigs with a zinc deficiency.