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What is the difference between eczema and ringworm?

eczema | ringworm |

As nouns the difference between eczema and ringworm

is that eczema is an acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly it is noncontagious while ringworm is a contagious fungal affliction of the skin, characterised by ring-shaped discoloured patches, covered by vesicles or scales.

eczema

English

(wikipedia eczema)

Noun

  • An acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly. It is noncontagious.

    • Hypernyms

    * dermatitis

    Derived terms

    * eczematic * eczematous

    ringworm

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A contagious fungal affliction of the skin, characterised by ring-shaped discoloured patches, covered by vesicles or scales.
  • * "As listed above, in superficial mycoses infection is localised to the skin, the hair, and the nails. An example is ringworm or tinea, an infection of the skin by a dermatophyte."

    • Synonyms

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    Hyponyms

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