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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2005-10-25 07:17 am

vitiligo

vitiligo - n., partial or total loss of skin pigmentation, often occurring in patches.


Sometimes also called leukoderma, though sometimes a distinction is made that leukoderma is congenital while vitiligo is acquirable. From Latin vitiligo, tetter, or at least some skin disease.

Okay, so it's not a nice word.

---L.

veni vidi vitiligo

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