Medical

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
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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
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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