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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A chronic inflammation of the hair follicles, especially of the beard, characterized by eruption of pimples and nodules.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fungous sore which resem-bles the pulp of a fig.
  • noun An eruption on the bearded face caused by an inflammation of the sebaceous follicles and hair-follicles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun pathology A pustular eruption that affects the scalp or the bearded part of the face

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin sȳcōsis, sore resembling a fig, from Greek sūkōsis, from sūkon, fig.]

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