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  2. Senile pruritus - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] In the elderly, xerosis, is the most common cause for an itch due to the degradation of the skin barrier over time. [4] However, the cause of senile pruritus is not clearly known. [5] Diagnosis is based on an elimination criteria during a full body examination that can be done by either a dermatologist or non-dermatologist physician ...

  3. Xeroderma - Wikipedia

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    Xeroderma, xerosis or xerosis cutis, or simply dry skin, is a skin condition characterized by excessively dry skin. [2] The term derives from Greek ξηρός (xeros) 'dry' and δέρμα (derma) 'skin'. In most cases, dry skin can safely be treated with moisturizers (also called emollients).

  4. Lichen sclerosus - Wikipedia

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    Lichen sclerosus (LS) is a chronic, inflammatory skin disease, of unknown cause, which can affect any body part of any person, but has a strong preference for the genitals (penis, vulva), and is also known as balanitis xerotica obliterans when it affects the penis.

  5. Xerosis cutis - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 29 August 2013, at 06:33 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  6. List of skin conditions - Wikipedia

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    The skin weighs an average of four kilograms, covers an area of two square metres, and is made of three distinct layers: the epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue. [1] The two main types of human skin are: glabrous skin, the hairless skin on the palms and soles (also referred to as the "palmoplantar" surfaces), and hair-bearing skin. [3]

  7. Wikipedia : WikiProject Medicine/Cochrane/Cochrane Skin ...

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    We will solicit skin disease pictures from Cochrane Skin consumers globally for addition to Cochrane Skin Systematic Reviews in the Cochrane Library and Wikipedia via the social media outreach. Pictures will need to be of acceptable quality as judged by our medical and technical experts and come with:

  8. Cutis - Wikipedia

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    Cutis may refer to several unrelated biological structures: Cutis (anatomy), the outermost layers of skin; Cutis (mycology), a type of pileipellis in a fungus; Other

  9. Corynebacterium xerosis - Wikipedia

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    Appearance of C. xerosis colonies on blood agar. Corynebacterium xerosis is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium in the genus Corynebacterium.Although it is frequently a harmless commensal organism living on the skin and in the mucous membranes, C. xerosis is also a clinically relevant opportunistic pathogen that has been attributed to many different infections in animals and humans.