In superficial mycoses infection is localised to the skin, the hair, and the nails. An example is ringworm or tinea, an infection of the skin by a dermatophyte.
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Ringworm
//ˈɹɪŋˌwɝm//
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55 translations across 37 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- qere noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Arabic
4 entries- سَعْفَة noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- قرع noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- قَرَع noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- قُوبَاء noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Catalan
1 entries- tinya noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Chichewa
2 entries- chipere noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- chiwengo noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 癬 /癣 noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- 癬疥 /癣疥 noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Dutch
1 entries- ringworm noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Esperanto
1 entries- favo noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Finnish
1 entries- silsa noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
French
3 entries- rogne noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- roue de Sainte-Catherine noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- teigne noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Galician
1 entries- tiña noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
German
3 entries- Flechtengrind noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- Glatzflechte noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- Ringelflechte noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Hausa
1 entries- màkērṑ noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Hindi
1 entries- दाद noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Indonesian
1 entries- kurap noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Italian
1 entries- tigna noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Japanese
1 entries- 白癬 noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Khmer
1 entries- ស្រែង noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Korean
1 entries- 버짐 noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Malay
1 entries- kurap noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Malayalam
2 entries- ചുണങ്ങ് noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- വട്ടച്ചൊറി noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Maltese
1 entries- ħżieża noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡶᡳᠶᡝᠯᡝᠨ noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Māori
1 entries- muna noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Nepali
1 entries- दाद noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Norman
1 entries- tangne noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Old English
1 entries- dēawwyrm noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Polish
1 entries- parch noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Portuguese
2 entries- porrigem noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- tinha noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Russian
1 entries- стригу́щий лиша́й noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Spanish
2 entries- tinea noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- tiña noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Swedish
2 entries- revorm noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- ringorm noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Telugu
1 entries- తామర noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Thai
1 entries- กลาก noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Unami
1 entries- mishhwe noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hắc lào noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Walloon
3 entries- diele noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- rowe Sinte-Catrene noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- tigne noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Welsh
3 entries- gwreinen noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- gwreinyn noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
- tarwden noun (contagious fungal affliction of the skin)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Many of these natives, especially the lower classes, and fishermen, have their skins disfigured in a singular manner, by a sort of scurfy disease, similar to the ring-worm, or rather to a person whose skin was peeling off from the effects of the sun.
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