Definitions for tineas

tineas tin·e·a

Spelling: [tin-ee-uh]
IPA: /ˈtɪn i ə/

Tineas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in tineas (aeinst).

Definitions for tineas

noun

  1. any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.

Origin of tineas

1350-1400; Middle English Medieval Latin; Latin: larva of a moth or beetle that devours books, clothes, etc.

Examples for tineas

Leeuwenhoek's wolf (tinea granella) might visit us, in a similar conveyance, from Holland or France.

The late Dr. Masters attributed the mischief to the work of the larva of a small moth (tinea curtisella).

Ringworm is a kind of tinea, and it is caused by various mould fungi.

tinea Favosa, or favus, is a contagious and a very stubborn disease of the skin, caused by the fungus Achorion Schoenleinii.

The approach of Lithosia to the genus Yponomeuta, in tinea, scarcely need be pointed out.

It is not infectious, nor liable to swell the lymphatics in its vicinity like the tinea.

In the human body this also develops into a tapeworm called the tinea mediocanellata.

Ovid, in his exile at Tomi, likens the "external remorse of its cares" which his heart feels to the gnawing of the tinea.

In tinea sycosis, or ringworm sycosis, the history of the case is different.

The skin disease Pityriasis (tinea) versicolor was shown to be due to the Microsporon furfur by Eichstedt in 1846.

Word Value for tineas
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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