English Explanatory Dictionary

eczema

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly.
  2. Synonym of atopic dermatitis.
  3. Synonym of dermatitis.

Pronunciation

/ˈɛk.sɪm.ə/ /ˈɛks.mə/ /ˈɛɡ.zɪm.ə/ /ˈɛɡz.mə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eczema.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eczema2.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eczema3.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eczema4.wav /ɪɡˈzi.mə/ /ˈɛɡ.zəm.ə/ /ˈɛk.səm.ə/ Eczema-En-US.wav

Word forms

eczema eczemata eczemas eczma

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin eczema, from Ancient Greek ἔκζεμᾰ (ékzemă, “cutaneous eruption”), from ἐκζέω (ekzéō, “to boil out, break out”) + -μᾰ (-mă, nominal suffix).

Synonyms

atopic dermatitis dermatitis

Derived words

antieczema atopic eczema eczemalike eczema madidans eczema marginatum eczema rubrum eczema-thrombocytopenia-immunodeficiency syndrome eczematic eczematization eczematoid eczematous eczemic housewife's eczema

Translations

Arabic: أَكْزِيمَا Belarusian: экзэ́ма Bengali: কাউর Bengali: বিখাউজ Bengali: উকা Cebuano: yabon Chinese Cantonese: 濕疹 /溼疹 /湿疹 Hakka Chinese: 濕疹 /溼疹 /湿疹 Chinese: 濕疹 /溼疹 /湿疹 Chinese: 爛癬 /烂癣 Chinese: 濕癬 /溼癬 /湿癣 Chinese Mandarin: 濕疹 /溼疹 /湿疹 Crimean Tatar: mayasıl Czech: lišej Czech: ekzém Danish: eksem Dutch: eczeem Dutch: eczema Esperanto: ekzemo Finnish: ekseema Finnish: rohtuma French: eczéma French: exéma Galician: eccema German: Ekzem German: Flechte Old High German: ἔκζεμα Hungarian: ekcéma Icelandic: exem Ido: ekzemo Indonesian: eksem Ingrian: täitarha Italian: eczema Jamaican Creole: fassy Japanese: 湿疹 Korean: 습진 Central Kurdish: بیرۆ Malay: ekzema Malayalam: എക്സിമ Māori: harehare Māori: pāpaka Māori: hare Norman: maladie d'la fontaine Norwegian Bokmål: eksem Norwegian Nynorsk: eksem Polish: egzema Polish: wyprysk Portuguese: eczema Romanian: eczemă Russian: экзе́ма Spanish: eczema Spanish: eccema Swedish: eksem
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