sandpaper skin

A descriptive term for:
(1) The coarse, bumpy, cool, pale, hypotrichous skin characteristic of hypothyroidism
(2) Keratosis pilaris, more commonly designated as chicken skin
(3) The skin surface in scarlet fever with indurated hair follicles; sandpaper mucosa refers to the bright, bumpy, intraoral erythema of scarlet fever that desquamates with the resolution of infection

sandpaper skin

A descriptor for 1 The coarse, bumpy, cool, pale, hypotrichous skin characteristic of hypothyroidism 2 The skin surface in scarlet fever with indurated hair follicles; sandpaper mucosa refers to the bright bumpy, intraoral erythema of scarlet fever that desquamates with the resolution of infection