different between ringworm vs psoriasis

English

Etymology

From ring +? worm, being descriptive of what it looks like.

Noun

ringworm (usually uncountable, plural ringworms)

1. A contagious fungal infection of the skin, characterised by ring-shaped discoloured patches, covered by vesicles or scales.

   In superficial mycoses infection is localised to the skin, the hair, and the nails. An example is ringworm or tinea, an infection of the skin by a dermatophyte.

Synonyms

• dermatophytosis
• tinea

Hyponyms

• athlete’s foot
• barber’s itch
• jock itch

Translations

See also

• dermatomycosis

Dutch

Etymology

Compound of ring +? worm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??.??rm/
• Hyphenation: ring?worm

Noun

ringworm m (plural ringwormen)

1. annelid, worm of the phylum Annelida
2. ringworm, infectious fungal disease

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (ps?ríasis), from ???? (ps?ra, “itch”) (English psora) + -??? (-sis, “nouns of action”) (English -sis).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a??s?s

Noun

psoriasis (countable and uncountable, plural psoriases)

1. (medicine) A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.

Derived terms

Related terms

• psora

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?psori?sis/, [?ps?o?ri??s?is?]
• Rhymes: -?sis
• Syllabification: pso?ri?a?sis

Noun

psoriasis

1. (medicine) psoriasis

Declension

Synonyms

• psoriaasi
• hilsetystauti

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (ps?ríasis), from ???? (ps?ra, “itch”) + -??? (-sis, “action, process”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so??jasis/, [so??ja.sis]

• IPA^(key): /so??jasis/, [so??ja.sis]
• Rhymes: -asis
• Hyphenation: pso?ria?sis

Noun

psoriasis f (plural psoriasis)

1. (dermatology) psoriasis

Derived terms

• psoriásico
• psoriasiforme

Further reading

• “psoriasis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.