ringworm

Etymology
From, being descriptive of what it looks like.

Noun

 * 1) A contagious fungal infection of the skin, characterised by ring-shaped discoloured patches, covered by vesicles or scales.
 * In superficial mycoses infection is localised to the skin, the hair, and the nails. An example is ringworm or tinea, an infection of the skin by a dermatophyte.

Hyponyms

 * athlete’s foot, barber’s itch,

Derived terms

 * beard ringworm
 * gray patch ringworm
 * honeycomb ringworm
 * scalp ringworm
 * sylvatic ringworm

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: قرع, ڭوب
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chichewa: chipere, chiwengo
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: favo
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: Ringelflechte, Flechtengrind; Glatzflechte
 * Hausa: makero
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingue:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 버짐
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: വട്ടച്ചൊറി
 * Maori: muna
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali: दाद
 * Norman: tangne
 * Old English: dēawwyrm
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, porrigem
 * Russian: стригу́щий лиша́й
 * Spanish:, tinea
 * Swedish: ringorm,
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan:
 * Unami: mishhwe
 * Vietnamese: hắc lào
 * Walloon:, animals ,
 * Welsh: tarwden, gwreinyn, gwreinen

Etymology
Compound of.

Noun

 * 1) annelid, worm of the phylum Annelida
 * , infectious fungal disease