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Ichthyosis vs Fishskin - What's the difference?

ichthyosis | fishskin | see also |

Ichthyosis is a see also of fishskin.


As nouns the difference between ichthyosis and fishskin

is that ichthyosis is (disease) a disease which gives the sufferer a dry, scaly skin while fishskin is the skin of a fish.

ichthyosis

English

(wikipedia ichthyosis)

Noun

  • (disease) A disease which gives the sufferer a dry, scaly skin.
  • * 1926 , Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’, Norton 2005, p. 1506:
    • A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis , a scale-like affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly non-infective.

    Derived terms

    * dysplastic ichthyosis * harlequin ichthyosis, harlequin type ichthyosis * ichthyosis bullosa * ichthyosis congenita * ichthyosis fetalis * ichthyosis hystrix * ichthyosis vulgaris * lamellar ichthyosis

    fishskin

    English

    Noun

    (s)
  • The skin of a fish.
  • * 1991 , Joseph Bruchac, Native American Stories, from Keepers of the Earth (Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, ISBN 1-55591-094-7), page 67:
    • His tent was not beautiful and covered with soft skins. It was made of fishskins and full of holes so that wind and snow blew in. Her bed was not made of soft bearskins, but of hard walrus hide.
    Certain fishskins are used to make bags.

    See also

    * fishskin disease (ichthyosis)