Xerosis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Dryness. countable, uncountable

    "Xerosis is a consequence of the skin's loss of natural moisturizing factors and loss of moisture from the stratum corneum and intercellular matrix (Hill, 2008)."

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"Xerosis is a consequence of the skin's loss of natural moisturizing factors and loss of moisture from the stratum corneum and intercellular matrix (Hill, 2008)."

Etymology

From xero- + -osis.

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