acanthosis
/akənˈθəʊsɪs/Medicine and Pathology
noun
Disease of the skin affecting the prickle-cell layer (stratum spinosum) of the epidermis; hyperplasia of prickle cells; an instance of this.
Origin
Late 19th century. From acantho- + -osis, after German Akanthose.
- receptivity
- receptor
- receptoral
- receptor-destroying enzyme
- receptory
- receptual
- receptually
- recercata
- recercely
- recercelée
- recertificate
- recertification
- recertify
- recess
- recession
- recessional
- recessional moraine
- recessionary
- recession buster
- extraneous
- extraneously
- extraneousness
- extranet
- extra-nidal
- extranuclear