psoriasis
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6.3
- noun
- /səˈraɪəsɪs/
- Specialized
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psoriasis
- Psoriasis: Psoriasis is a common, chronic, relapsing, genetically determined, inflammatory, and proliferative disease of the skin.
- treatment for psoriasis
- psoriasis vulgaris
- patients with psoriasis
It's not super cool if you can all spot my psoriasis.
- It's not super cool if you can all spot my psoriasis.
- Autoimmune disease like rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis are linked to vitamin D deficiency.
- This is good to use on scars, burns, rashes, acne, psoriasis.
- And this was something that was identified as psoriasis.
- He had such severe psoriasis on his hands and feet that his hands and feet were bloody.
- We will talk about common conditions of skin that concern people such as acne, rosacea, psoriasis, eczema.
- Those also help reduce symptoms of psoriasis.
- Avoiding all grains has helped some of my patients markedly improve their psoriasis.
- It was full of psoriasis through stress.
- Do you have like a doesn't have psoriasis from so much stress?
- I read in psoriasis and chronic ear infections.
- That was my question, since the sun emits UV, why not just get some additional sunlight exposure for psoriasis so you can?
- You know, I'm doing these moderate to severe plaque psoriasis commercials, which I think tells you all you need to know that under this I am, by the way.
Examples
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Background: Psoriasis is a common, distressing dermatological disease with no unique curative systemic or topical treatment.
Academic text (2007) -
Psoriasis vulgaris is also referred to as plaque psoriasis because of the characteristic plaque formation on the skin.
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Your psoriasis is coming back.
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I found out later it was from psoriasis.
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Did you hear about the artist with a bad case of psoriasis?
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Studies say smoking appears to be more strongly associated with psoriasis in women than in men.
Blog text (13) -
The pathogenesis of psoriasis is not fully understood.
Academic text (2007) -
I suffer from the heartbreak of psoriasis.
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Currently, ABY-035 is being tested in patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis.
Academic text (2017) -
Many people with psoriasis experience flare-ups during stressful times.
Synonyms
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3.3
A problem that affects the skin, causing redness or itching
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3.6
A health problem that makes the skin red, sore, or itchy
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8.8
A skin disease that causes spots or bumps that are usually not red
How Scaly
Surface Forms
Morphology
psoriasis = psor + iasis
A technical medical formation from a non-productive combining form and a medical suffix, so an average B1 learner cannot derive the meaning from the parts.
Etymology
Psoriasis comes from the Greek root psora, which means 'itch' or 'scale', plus the ending -iasis meaning 'condition'. So psoriasis is literally a 'condition of itching or scaly skin', which explains the red, scaly patches people get.