scaly
Vitamin and mineral efficiencies are responsible for skin changes, including dryness and scaliness.
Scaliness of the skin, which can look like dandruff, may simply be caused by dry skin.
Look out for scaliness that appears on moles or areas of the skin.
In animals, ringworm lesions are usually patchy areas of hair loss and scaliness.
variations in skin roughness and scaliness between age groups

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Skin complaints & blemishes
acne rosacea
age spot
anti-crack
anti-dandruff
anti-leprosy
cold sore
cyst
dermatitis
macular
nettlerash
papular
papule
pemphigus
prickle
pustule
scabby
ulcer
ulcerated
verruca
wart

Examples of scaliness

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Baths of sal ammoniac, two to six ounces to the bath are also valuable in removing the scaliness.
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In this latter disease there is usually but slight scaliness, and rarely any scarring.
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The scaliness is bran-like or flaky, of a dirty gray color, and, as a rule, less marked in the central portion; it is never abundant.
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It is usually pinkish, pearl-white, or reddish, commonly devoid of hair, with no tendency to scaliness, and with, usually, several vessels coursing over it.
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Treatment that has in view removal of the scaliness and the maintenance of a soft and flexible condition of the skin.
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The hot vapor bath once or twice weekly is serviceable in keeping the scaliness in abeyance, and has, moreover, in some cases, a therapeutic value.
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In the severe variety--ichthyosis hystrix--in addition to scaliness there is marked papillary hypertrophy, forming warty or spinous patches.
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This disease is characterized by a profuse scaliness of the skin, by an eruption of pimples, vesicles, and, in rare instances, of pustules.
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There is slight scaliness, always insignificant and furfuraceous in character, and at times, except upon close inspection, scarcely perceptible.
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If upon the face, in addition to the scaliness, the sebaceous ducts are usually seen to be enlarged and filled with sebaceous matter.
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This minute animal burrows in the skin, irritating it, and thus producing the scaliness and itching.
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More or less scaliness is usually present in the confluent patches and on the palms and soles; in these latter regions the papules are rarely seen.
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In addition, there is slight scaliness.
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There was a suggestion of scaliness about it, as if the owner had dwelt long under conditions almost antithetical to those conditions under which human life ordinarily thrives.
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The scaliness is, as a rule, scanty.
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