tinea barbae

1. 1.

   fungal infection of the face and neck

   Synonymsbarber's itch

   Broadertinea

Questions about tinea barbae

What does tinea barbae mean?

tinea barbae means "fungal infection of the face and neck".

What is another word for tinea barbae?

Close synonyms include barber's itch. 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 tinea barbae a common word?

tinea barbae 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.