Glossary for Exfoliative dermatitis

• Alopecia: Various types of hair loss or balding
• Atopic dermatitis: Skin disorder characterized by chronic inflammation, and pruritis. Often hereditary and associated with allergic rhinitis and asthma.
• Cancer: Abnormal overgrowth of body cells.
• Contact dermatitis: Skin reaction to an irritant
• Dandruff: White flaking and dryness of the scalp.
• Dehydration: Loss of fluids in the body
• Dermatitis: General name for any type of skin inflammation.
• Eczema: Eczema is a chronic skin condition characterized by skin inflammation and irritation. The severity of extent of the condition is highly variable. It may be caused by allergies, irritants or other factors such as stress.
• Edema: Fluid retention in tissues
• Erythroderma: Condition with thickening and flaking skin
• Flaking skin: Where a persons skin lifts loosely in flakes
• Heart failure: Slow failure of the heart (cardiac insufficiency).
• Hypothermia: Low body temperature
• Leukemia: Cancer of the blood cells, usually white blood cells.
• Lymphoma: Cancer involving lymph nodes and the immune system.
• Peeling skin: Skin peeling off
• Pityriasis rubra pilaris: A chronic inflammatory skin condition
• Pruritus: The sensation of itch
• Psoriasis: Chronic skin rash condition, usually red or silver and blistery.
• Red skin: The occurrence of red skin
• Scaly skin: Toughness or scaliness of the skin
• Skin conditions: Any condition that affects the skin
• Swollen skin: It is caused by build up of fluid in the interstial tissues

 » Next page: Clinical Trials for Exfoliative dermatitis

Rate This Website

What do you think about the features of this website? Take our user survey and have your say:

Website User Survey

Medical Tools & Articles:

Next articles:

• Clinical Trials for Exfoliative dermatitis
• Images relating to Exfoliative dermatitis
• External links relating to Exfoliative dermatitis
• Atopic dermatitis (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
• Dermatitis (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

Tools & Services:

• Bookmark this page
• Take a survey relating to Exfoliative dermatitis
• Symptom Search
• Symptom Checker
• Medical Dictionary
• Give your feedback

Medical Articles:

• Disease & Treatments Search
• Misdiagnosis Center
• Full list of interesting articles

Forums & Message Boards

• Ask or answer a question at the Boards:
• I cannot get a diagnosis. Please help.
• Tell us your medical story.
• Share your misdiagnosis story.
• What is the best treatment for my condition?
• See all the Boards.

Enter your search terms Submit search form
Search The Web Search wrongdiagnosis.com

Common Health Mistakes

Symptom
Checker

Search Specialists by State and City