tinea
noun/ˈtɪ.ni.ə/ · /ˈtɪ.ni.ɚ/
Etymology From Latin tinea (“moth; bookworm”).
- Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea, her fingernails black and broken.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 6:
- Synonyms
- dermatophytosis
- Derived terms
- tinea versicolour
- Related terms
- caused by dermatophyte, tinea barbae, tinea capitis, tinea corporis, legs, and trunk, tinea cruris, tinea faciei, tinea manuum, tinea pedis, tinea unguium, toenails, and the nail bed, of other causes, tinea nigra – Hortaea werneckii, tinea versicolor – Malassezia furfur