ringworm
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- noun
- /ˈrɪŋˌwɜrm/
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tiña
- - I've got ringworm.
- ringworm infection
- case of ringworm
- ringworm of the scalp
She found it with her hands and the first thing she said was you've got ringworm.
- She found it with her hands and the first thing she said was you've got ringworm.
- He got prescribed A antifungal cream and yeast infection pills to battle the ringworm.
Examples
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I worry about things like foot rot, ringworm, pink eye, and scours.
Academic text (2001) -
The goat's got ringworm.
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Do you have anything for ringworm?
Fiction book (1994) -
But ringworm is a fungus, so you want it dry.
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I hardly ever got a chance to treat a case of ringworm of the scalp.
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Some schoolchildren have ringworm that won't heal.
Blog text (12) -
Children, three of them not even in their teens, ringworm already in their hair, their grubby faces thin and spotted with sores, their eyes glistening hungrily in the half-light.
Fiction book (1990) -
There was something not quite clean-feeling about the place, and I imagined Buster's kitchen teeming with polio germs or ringworm, the two infections everyone feared most.
Fiction book (1993) -
My four-year-old daughter caught ringworm at our community swimming pool.
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What causes ringworm, and how do I prevent it from coming back?
Synonyms
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An infection of the skin or nails that makes round itchy patches
A skin infection from a fungus that makes round red patches on the body
Compounds
Tropical shrub with yellow flowers whose juice treats skin rashes and insect bites
A tropical shrub with large leaves and yellow flowers whose juice people use to treat skin infections and poisonous bites
A tropical shrub with yellow flowers and large leaves whose juice treats skin infections and poisonous bites
How Severe
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word ringworm comes from how people long ago named the skin mark: they put together ring ('round band') and worm ('small animal') because they thought a worm made the round patch. Today we know ringworm is a fungus, not a worm, and the name still helps you remember the ring-like rash.