Favus Definition

fāvəs
noun
An infectious skin disease of humans and many animals, esp. fowl, caused by an imperfect fungus (esp. Trichophyton schoenleinii) and characterized by itching and the formation of yellow crusts usually about the hair follicles, esp. on the head.
Webster's New World

(medicine) A severe, chronic infection of ringworm.

Wiktionary

A tile or flagstone cut into a hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern.

Wiktionary

Origin of Favus

  • From Latin favus (“honeycomb”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin honeycomb

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Favus Sentence Examples

  • In the disease of the scalp called favus, Schonlein had discovered a minute mycelial fungus; a remarkable discovery, for it was the first conspicuous step in the attribution of diseases to the action of minute parasites.

  • It can also be used with advantage in inoperable uterine cancer, favus and lupus, and as an injection in gonorrhoea and suppurative conditions of the ear.

  • Hexagonal areoles giving a honeycomb effect can be seen in the three-sided diatom Triceratium favus.

  • Schdnlein's positive contributions to medical science were not large; but he made in 1839 one discovery, apparently small, but in reality most suggestive, namely, that the contagious disease of the head called favus is produced by the growth in the hair of a parasitic fungus.

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