dermatology

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin, hide”) + -logy. Analysable as dermato- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɜːməˈtɒlədʒi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

dermatology (countable and uncountable, plural dermatologies)

1. (medicine) The study of the skin and its diseases.

Derived terms

• photodermatology
• psychodermatology
• teledermatology

Related terms

• dermatological
• dermatologist
• oncodermatology

Translations

the study of the skin and its diseases

• Albanian: dermatologjia
• Arabic: طِبّ الأَمْرَاض الجِلْدِيَّة m (ṭibb al-ʔamrāḍ al-jildiyya)
• Armenian: մաշկաբանություն (hy) (maškabanutʻyun)
• Basque: dermatologia (eu)
• Belarusian: дэрматалогія f (dermatalóhija)
• Catalan: dermatologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皮膚病學 / 皮肤病学 (zh) (pífūbìngxué), 皮膚科 / 皮肤科 (zh) (pífūkē)

• Czech: dermatologie (cs) f
• Danish: dermatologi c
• Dutch: dermatologie (nl)
• Dzongkha: པགས་ནད་རིག་པ (pags nad rig pa)
• Esperanto: dermatologio
• Estonian: dermatoloogia
• Faroese: húðsjúkufrøði f
• Finnish: ihotautioppi, dermatologia (fi)
• French: dermatologie (fr) f
• Galician: dermatoloxía (gl) f
• German: Dermatologie (de) f
• Greek: δερματολογία (el) f (dermatología)
• Hebrew: רפואת עור
• Hindi: त्वचाविज्ञान (tvacāvijñān)
• Hungarian: bőrgyógyászat (hu), dermatológia (hu)
• Icelandic: húðsjúkdómafræði f
• Irish: deirmeolaíocht f
• Italian: dermatologia (it) f
• Japanese: 皮膚科学 (ja) (ひふかがく, hifukagaku)
• Khmer: តចវិទ្យា (ta’cha’ vityie)
• Korean: 피부과학(皮膚科學) (pibugwahak)
• Latvian: dermatoloģija f
• Lithuanian: dermatologija f
• Malay: kaji penyakit kulit, dermatologi
• Mongolian: арьс судлал (arʹs sudlal)
• Polish: dermatologia (pl)
• Portuguese: dermatologia (pt) f
• Romanian: dermatologie (ro) f
• Russian: дерматоло́гия (ru) f (dermatológija)
• Serbo-Croatian: dermatologija (sh) f
• Slovak: dermatológia (sk) f, kožné lekárstvo n
• Spanish: dermatología (es) f
• Swedish: dermatologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: palabalatan
• Tamil: தோலியல் (ta) (tōliyal)
• Thai: ตจวิทยา
• Turkish: dermatoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: дерматологія f (dermatolohija)
• Vietnamese: khoa da liễu
• Welsh: dermatoleg