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skin disease
Sign in to saveAlso known as Genodermatosis, Rare genodermatosis, Disorder of Skin, skin and subcutaneous tissue disease, skin disorder, Skin Diseases and Manifestations, Cutaneous Disorder, dermatosis
class of disorder that affects skin, hair or nails
Key facts
- Other names
- Cutaneous condition
- Specialty
- Dermatology
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
1,496,842 papers- Pathogenesis of Inflammation in Skin Disease: From Molecular Mechanisms to Pathology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
- Sports Dermatology: Skin Disease in Athletes.Clinics in sports medicine · 2019
- A Review of Skin Disease in Schizophrenia.Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
- Skin disease.British medical bulletin · 1993
- Skin disease in dermatomyositis.Current opinion in rheumatology · 2012
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
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- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- topic's main category
- Category:Cutaneous conditions
- Commons category
- Diseases and disorders of the skin
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C3371
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- diflucortolone
- afflicts
- skin
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:37
- health specialty
- dermatology
- ICD-9-CM
- 702.8
- risk factor
- smoking
- studied by
- dermatology
- P8168
- Lavastrie
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
A skin condition, also known as a cutaneous condition, is any medical condition that affects the integumentary system—the organ system that encloses the body and includes skin, nails, and related muscle and glands. The major function of this system is to act as a barrier against the external environment.
Conditions of the human integumentary system constitute a broad spectrum of diseases, also known as dermatoses, as well as many nonpathologic states (like, in certain circumstances, melanonychia and racquet nails). While only a small number of skin diseases account for most visits to the physician, thousands of skin conditions have been described. Classification of these conditions often presents many nosological challenges, since underlying causes and pathogenetics are often not known. Therefore, most current textbooks present a classification based on location (for example, conditions of the mucous membrane), morphology (chronic blistering conditions), cause (skin conditions resulting from physical factors), and so on.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “skin disease” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.