English Explanatory Dictionary

pilonidal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having body hairs which have grown in a concentrated area on the skin and formed a cyst or abscess.

Word forms

pilonidal

Etymology

From Latin pilus (“hair”) and nidus (“nest”).

Related words

natal cleft sacrococcygeal fistula

Derived words

pilonidal abscess pilonidal cyst pilonidal disease pilonidal sinus
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on P Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary