dermatosis

1. 1.

   disorder involving lesions or eruptions of the skin (in which there is usually no inflammation)

   Broaderskin disease

   Narrowerpityriasis

Other forms of dermatosis

plural

dermatoses

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dermatosis

What does dermatosis mean?

dermatosis means "disorder involving lesions or eruptions of the skin (in which there is usually no inflammation)".

How many syllables are in dermatosis?

dermatosis has 4 syllables: der-ma-to-sis. The stress falls on "ma".

Is dermatosis a common word?

dermatosis 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.