‖ sycosis Path.
(saɪˈkəʊsɪs)
[mod.L., a. Gr. σύκωσις, f. σῦκον fig.]
1. Applied to various kinds of ulcer or morbid growth on the skin, resembling a fig. ? Obs.
| 1580 Newton Approved Med. 77 A certaine disease of the eye Lyddes which is called Sycosis. 1693 tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict., Sycosis, an Excrescence of the Flesh about the Fundament. 'Tis also an Ulcer so called from the resemblance of a Fig. 1820 Good Nosology 155 Sycosis, tumour excrescent; fleshy; fig-shaped. |
2. An eruptive disease characterized by inflammation of the hair-follicles, esp. of the beard.
| 1822–7 Good Study Med. (1829) II. 352 Sycosis..is seated sometimes on the beard, and sometimes in the hair of the head. 1883–4 Medical Annual 23/1 Eczema of the chin and cheeks of adults..the non-parasitic sycosis of many writers. |