tinea corporis

1. 1.

   fungal infection of nonhairy parts of the skin

   Broadertinea

Questions about tinea corporis

What does tinea corporis mean?

tinea corporis means "fungal infection of nonhairy parts of the skin".

Is tinea corporis a common word?

tinea corporis 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.