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New Latin, from ichthyo- +‎ -osis.

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  • IPA(key): /ɪkθɪˈəʊsɪs/
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ichthyosis (countable and uncountable, plural ichthyoses)

  1. (pathology) A disease which gives the sufferer a dry, scaly skin.
    • 1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Norton, published 2005, page 1506:
      A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale-like affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly non-infective.

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