Etymology
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From ring + worm, being descriptive of what it looks like.
Pronunciation
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ringworm (usually uncountable, plural ringworms)
- A contagious fungal infection of the skin, characterised by ring-shaped discoloured patches, covered by vesicles or scales.
- 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.
1848 December, “Pacific Ocean: The Island of Bornabi”, in The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, volume 17, number 12, page 647: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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contagious fungal affliction of the skin
- Albanian: qere (sq) f
- Arabic:
- Moroccan Arabic: قرع m (qraʕ), ڭوب m (gub)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: tinya (ca) f
- Chichewa: chipere, chiwengo
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 癬／癣 (zh) (xuǎn), 癬疥／癣疥 (zh) (xuǎnjiè)
- Dutch: ringworm (nl) m
- Esperanto: favo
- Finnish: silsa (fi)
- French: teigne (fr) f, roue de Sainte-Catherine (fr) f, rogne (fr) f
- Galician: tiña (gl) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Ringelflechte f, Flechtengrind m; (bovines) Glatzflechte f
- Hausa: màkērṑ m
- Hindi: दाद (hi) (dād)
- Indonesian: kurap (id)
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: tigna (it) f
- Japanese: 白癬 (ja) (はくせん, hakusen)
- Khmer: ស្រែង (km) (sraeng)
- Korean: 버짐 (beojim)
- Malay: kurap (ms)
- Malayalam: വട്ടച്ചൊറി (vaṭṭaccoṟi)
- Maori: muna
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Nepali: दाद (dād)
- Norman: tangne f
- Old English: dēawwyrm m
- Polish: parch (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: tinha (pt) f, porrigem f
- Russian: стригу́щий лиша́й m (strigúščij lišáj)
- Spanish: tiña (es) f, tinea f
- Swedish: ringorm c, revorm (sv) c
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: తామర (te) (tāmara)
- Thai: กลาก (th) (glàak)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Unami: mishhwe
- Vietnamese: hắc lào
- Walloon: tigne (wa) f (man, hair, diffuse), diele f (man and animals, round), rowe Sinte-Catrene (wa) f (man, round)
- Welsh: tarwden f, gwreinyn m, gwreinen f
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