darier's disease

1. 1.

   a rare hereditary condition marked by dark crusted patches (sometimes containing pus)

   Synonymskeratosis follicularis

   Broaderkeratosis

Questions about darier's disease

What does darier's disease mean?

darier's disease means "a rare hereditary condition marked by dark crusted patches (sometimes containing pus)".

What is another word for darier's disease?

Close synonyms include keratosis follicularis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is darier's disease a common word?

darier's disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.