skin disease

Questions about skin disease

What does skin disease mean?

skin disease means "a disease affecting the skin".

What is another word for skin disease?

Close synonyms include disease of the skin, skin disorder. 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 skin disease a common word?

skin 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.