Tinea is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.
You can make 71 anagrams from letters in tinea (aeint).
1350-1400; Middle English Medieval Latin; Latin: larva of a moth or beetle that devours books, clothes, etc.
tinea Favosa, or favus, is a contagious and a very stubborn disease of the skin, caused by the fungus Achorion Schoenleinii.
Ovid, in his exile at Tomi, likens the "external remorse of its cares" which his heart feels to the gnawing of the tinea.
It is not infectious, nor liable to swell the lymphatics in its vicinity like the tinea.
Leeuwenhoek's wolf (tinea granella) might visit us, in a similar conveyance, from Holland or France.
Ringworm is a kind of tinea, and it is caused by various mould fungi.
In the human body this also develops into a tapeworm called the tinea mediocanellata.
In tinea sycosis, or ringworm sycosis, the history of the case is different.
The late Dr. Masters attributed the mischief to the work of the larva of a small moth (tinea curtisella).
The approach of Lithosia to the genus Yponomeuta, in tinea, scarcely need be pointed out.
The skin disease Pityriasis (tinea) versicolor was shown to be due to the Microsporon furfur by Eichstedt in 1846.