xerosis

English

Etymology

xero- +‎ -osis

Noun

xerosis (countable and uncountable, plural xeroses)

  1. (medicine) Dryness.
    • 2015, Ruth Bryant, Denise Nix, Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Concepts, page 271:
      Xerosis is a consequence of the skin's loss of natural moisturizing factors and loss of moisture from the stratum corneum and intercellular matrix (Hill, 2008).

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