different between vitiligo vs leucoderma

English

Etymology

From Latin vitil?g?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a????

Noun

vitiligo (usually uncountable, plural vitiligos)

1. The patchy loss of skin pigmentation.
2. (obsolete) Alphos, a form of leprosy.

Synonyms

• (patchy loss of pigmentation): leucoderma

Derived terms

• vitiligous

Related terms

• See vice#Related_terms

Translations

See also

• vitiligo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??itili?o/, [??it?i?li?o?]
• Rhymes: -i?o
• Syllabification: vi?ti?li?go

Noun

vitiligo

1. vitiligo

Declension

Latin

Etymology

From an unknown stem with the disease suffix -?g?. Related to vitium, but not directly derived from it on account of the l.

Noun

vitil?g? f (genitive vitil?ginis); third declension

1. a skin disease, tetter
2. leprosy

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Further reading

• vitiligo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vitiligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

References

Portuguese

Noun

vitiligo m (uncountable)

1. (medicine) vitiligo (patchy loss of skin pigmentation)

Romanian

Etymology

From French vitiligo.

Noun

vitiligo n (uncountable)

1. vitiligo

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biti?li?o/, [bi.t?i?li.??o]

Noun

vitiligo m (plural vitiligos)

1. vitiligo

English

Alternative forms

• leukoderma

Etymology

leuco- +? -derma

Noun

leucoderma (countable and uncountable, plural leucodermas or leucodermata)

1. (pathology) A loss of skin pigmentation, often in patches

Synonyms

• vitiligo