![]() Sometimes, the suffix is used alone as in “id reaction,” which has been invoked traditionally by dermatologists for what is known, equally confusingly, as “autoeczematization” and “autosensitization.” These fuzzy concepts were spawned more than three quarters of a century ago, when it was common practice in dermatology to use treatments such as autohemotherapy for a host of inflammatory diseases, injections intravenously of calcium gluconate for intractable pruritus, and radiation therapy for epilation of hairs harboring the organisms of tinea capitis. For example, “-id” appears in words that reflect wholly diverse pathologic processes, such as eczematoid, syphilid, dermatophytid, monilioid, and leukemid. ID: a suffix employed by dermatologists in such an inconsistent way that no unifying theme can be identified for it. Conditions reputed to be ichthyosis, such as ichthyosis hystrix and ichthyosis linearis circumflexa, do not qualify because they are not associated with broad polygonal scales. ![]() ![]() ICHTHYOSIS: a generic term for skin conditions characterized by what are said to be fishlike scales, i.e., scales that are broad and polygonal with free edges, as are seen in ichthyosis vulgaris (and its look-alike, acquired ichthyosis), X-linked ichthyosis, and lamellar ichthyosis.
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