单词 | plica neuropathica |
释义 | plica neuropathican. Medicine. Sudden matting of the hair or strands of hair into a felt-like mass, originally attributed to a nervous disorder and possibly caused by mechanical or chemical damage. ΚΠ 1884 J. F. Le Page in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Apr. 160/1 In the Dermatological Department of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England may be seen a specimen bearing the designation ‘neuropathic plica’.] 1900 G. M. Gould Pocket Med. Dict. (ed. 4) 529 P[lica] neuropathica, a curling of the hair from a nervous derangement. 1912 Lancet 21 Dec. 1717/1 Plica neuropathica is the name given to a condition of idiopathic tangling or matting together of some locks of hair of the head without apparent cause. 1926 O. L. Levin Your Hair & Your Health xii. 133 A very different type of matted hair is plica neuropathica. As the name implies it is most common among nervous persons, particularly among women. 1969 Arch. Dermatol. 100 458/1 Hysteria was described as a prominent feature in five of the seven women previously reported with plica neuropathica. 2004 Pediatric Dermatol. 21 Plica neuropathica is a rare, acquired condition of sudden onset characterized by irreversible matting of hair. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1900 |
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