Associations to the word «Eczema»

Wiktionary

ECZEMA, noun. An acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly. It is noncontagious.

Dictionary definition

ECZEMA, noun. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin; particularly with vesiculation in the acute stages.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope