Morgellonsn.

Brit.

/mɔːˈɡɛlənz/, U.S.

/mɔrˈɡɛlənz/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown. Compare Occitan masquelon (see quot. 1612). Revived in 21st-cent. use (see sense 2).Compare:1612 tr. J. Guillemeau Nursing of Children xxxv. in Child-birth 116 (heading) Of the breeding, and comming foorth of Haires on childrens backs and raines, called in Languedocke Masquelon, and of the Latins, Morbus pilaris.

1. A disease said to affect young children and to be characterized by the growth of coarse hairs on the back. rare. Now historical.The brief account of the Morgellons in quot. a1682 appears to place it within the tradition of a disease of children discussed by continental European medical writers of the 16th–18th centuries under a number of different names, and described as involving the appearance of abnormal hairs or worms in the skin. These were often interpreted by later writers as comedones (post-classical Latin comedo appears to have been first used in a 17th cent. description of this disease; see comedo n.).

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a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 5 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 Symptoms of the Disease, and delivers them from Coughs and Convulsions.

1935 Ann. Med. Hist. 7 477/2 The localization of the morgellons..being dependent on the method of swathing the child then in vogue, the great prevalence of the malady upon the extreme poverty of the people at that time.

1946 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 June 946/2 The starting-point for an alternative speculation of the nature of the ‘morgellons’ may be found in the migration of Hypoderma larvae through skin to muscles, thence to the viscera,..and finally to the subcutaneous tissue of the back.

2. A disorder characterized by itching, creeping, or stinging sensations attributed to the presence of abnormal fibres embedded in or extruded from the skin. Also Morgellons disease. Frequently attributive.Generally regarded by physicians as a form of chronic pruritus with delusions of infestation.

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2002 in www.morgellons.org (O.E.D. Archive) Individuals with the Morgellons experience itchy, inflamed, non-healing skin lesions... One of the most striking features of the Morgellons is the presence of fibers or filaments of unknown origin on or within skin lesions.

2005 Contra Costa Times (Nexis) 14 Mar. a1 One reason the delusional parasitosis diagnosis comes so quickly is that Morgellons patients often meet the classic definition of the syndrome.

2008 Washington Post 20 Jan. (Mag.) 12/2 Some call it the ‘fiber disease’, but most refer to it as Morgellons, a name taken from a similar condition of children wasting away with ‘harsh hairs’ described in the 17th century.

2014 C. Seife Virtual Unreality iv. 68 The CDC study was very gentle about dispelling the myth of Morgellons, saying only that it ‘shares a number of clinical and epidemiologic features’ with delusional parasitosis.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	morgellons
释义	Morgellonsn. Brit. /mɔːˈɡɛlənz/, U.S. /mɔrˈɡɛlənz/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Compare Occitan masquelon (see quot. 1612). Revived in 21st-cent. use (see sense 2).Compare:1612 tr. J. Guillemeau Nursing of Children xxxv. in Child-birth 116 (heading) Of the breeding, and comming foorth of Haires on childrens backs and raines, called in Languedocke Masquelon, and of the Latins, Morbus pilaris. 1. A disease said to affect young children and to be characterized by the growth of coarse hairs on the back. rare. Now historical.The brief account of the Morgellons in quot. a1682 appears to place it within the tradition of a disease of children discussed by continental European medical writers of the 16th–18th centuries under a number of different names, and described as involving the appearance of abnormal hairs or worms in the skin. These were often interpreted by later writers as comedones (post-classical Latin comedo appears to have been first used in a 17th cent. description of this disease; see comedo n.). ΚΠ a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 5 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 Symptoms of the Disease, and delivers them from Coughs and Convulsions. 1935 Ann. Med. Hist. 7 477/2 The localization of the morgellons..being dependent on the method of swathing the child then in vogue, the great prevalence of the malady upon the extreme poverty of the people at that time. 1946 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 June 946/2 The starting-point for an alternative speculation of the nature of the ‘morgellons’ may be found in the migration of Hypoderma larvae through skin to muscles, thence to the viscera,..and finally to the subcutaneous tissue of the back. 2. A disorder characterized by itching, creeping, or stinging sensations attributed to the presence of abnormal fibres embedded in or extruded from the skin. Also Morgellons disease. Frequently attributive.Generally regarded by physicians as a form of chronic pruritus with delusions of infestation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > itching diseases cratcha1400 pruritusa1400 prurit1612 prurigoa1646 prurition1748 prurigo1798 ground-itch1823 frost itch1887 Morgellons2002 2002 in www.morgellons.org (O.E.D. Archive) Individuals with the Morgellons experience itchy, inflamed, non-healing skin lesions... One of the most striking features of the Morgellons is the presence of fibers or filaments of unknown origin on or within skin lesions. 2005 Contra Costa Times (Nexis) 14 Mar. a1 One reason the delusional parasitosis diagnosis comes so quickly is that Morgellons patients often meet the classic definition of the syndrome. 2008 Washington Post 20 Jan. (Mag.) 12/2 Some call it the ‘fiber disease’, but most refer to it as Morgellons, a name taken from a similar condition of children wasting away with ‘harsh hairs’ described in the 17th century. 2014 C. Seife Virtual Unreality iv. 68 The CDC study was very gentle about dispelling the myth of Morgellons, saying only that it ‘shares a number of clinical and epidemiologic features’ with delusional parasitosis. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1682
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