Scaliness

In this condition, whenever the hair is brushed or combed scaliness increases, often followed by itching and the scalp may become red from scratching. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An overabundance of dead skin causes an uncomfortable build up of scaliness and lesions plaques. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was a suggestion of scaliness about it, as if the owner had dwelt long under conditions almost antithetical to those conditions under which human life ordinarily thrives. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

The average person, who has psoriasis, may just have a little bit of redness and scaliness on the knees and on the elbows, but not typically in the other areas. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There was a suggestion of _scaliness_ about it, as if the owner had dwelt long under conditions almost antithetical to those conditions under which human life ordinarily thrives. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1967)

This name is from the Greek lepra, by which the Greek physicians designated the disease from its scaliness. ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

By its greater scaliness, by its higher degree of inflammatory action, and by its larger number of patches, as also by its history. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

Treatment that has in view removal of the scaliness and the maintenance of a soft and flexible condition of the skin. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

By the growth and characters of the patch, the slight scaliness, the tendency to disappear in the centre, by the history, and, if necessary, by a microscopic examination of the scales. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

Ichthyosis is a chronic, hypertrophic disease, characterized by dryness and scaliness of the skin, with a variable amount of papillary growth. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

By the peculiar clinical features of ringworm on this region -- the slight scaliness, broken hair and hair stumps, with a certain amount of baldness -- and in doubtful cases by a microscopical examination of the hairs. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

If slight irritation or scaliness results, the application is to be intermitted one or two nights; in the meantime nothing except the hot-water sponging, with or without the application of a mild soothing ointment, is to be employed. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

More or less scaliness is usually present in the confluent patches and on the palms and soles; in these latter regions the papules are rarely seen. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

At first they have a glazed or shining appearance; later, becoming slightly scaly, the scaliness being more marked where solid patches have resulted. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

There is gradual increase in size, the parts in some instances reaching enormous proportions; the skin becomes rough and warty, eczematous inflammation is often superadded, and, sooner or later, ulcers, superficial or deep, form -- which, together with the crusting and moderate scaliness, present a striking picture. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

The milder forms of the disease may be so slight as to give rise to simple dryness or harshness of the skin (_xeroderma_); but as commonly met with it is more developed, more or less marked scaliness in the form of thin or somewhat thick epidermal plates being present. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)