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Lesion vs Morgellons - What's the difference?

lesion | morgellons |

As a noun lesion

is lesion.

As a proper noun morgellons is

(pathology) a controversial, unproven skin disorder usually dismissed as delusional parasitosis, and characterized by skin lesions producing odd fibers of unknown origin.

lesion

English

(wikipedia lesion)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wound or injury.
  • (medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such patch of skin.

    • Related terms

    * lese majesty,

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    morgellons

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Morgellons disease * Morgellons syndrome

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun) (wikipedia Morgellons)
  • (pathology) A controversial, unproven skin disorder usually dismissed as delusional parasitosis, and characterized by skin lesions producing odd fibers of unknown origin.
  • (obsolete) A disease causing hairs to grow on the backs of children.
  • * 1690 , Thomas Browne, "":
    • But Hairs make fallible Predictions, and many Temples early gray have out-lived the Psalmist's Period. Hairs which have most amused me have not been in the Face or Head, but on the Back, and not in Men but Children, as I long ago observed in that Endemial Distemper of little Children in Languedock, called the Morgellons , wherein they critically break out with harsh Hairs on their Backs, which takes off the Unquiet Symptomes of the Disease, and delivers them from Coughs and Convulsions.