‖ pelada Path.
(pɪˈlɑːdə)
Also in Fr. form pelade.
[F. pelade a disease that causes falling off of down or hair, f. peler to deprive of hair.]
(See quots.) Hence peladic (pɪˈlædɪk) a., of or pertaining to pelada.
| 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Pelada, a kind of alopecia, or distempered state of the body, occasioning the shedding of the hair, arising from a venereal cause. 1857 in Mayne. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 905 Microbacillus of the ‘peladic utricle’... Found in the ampulliform dilatations of the hair follicles..in enormous numbers. |