discoid

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Recent Examples of discoid Some target the hair follicles or scalp specifically—like alopecia areata and discoid lupus erythematosus—while others (such as thyroid disease) affect another part of the body and can cause hair loss as one of many symptoms, Dr. Lo Sicco explains. Krissy Brady, SELF, 5 Mar. 2024 The reasons for this discrepancy aren’t clear, but the answer could be tied to other discoid eczema risk factors. Stephanie Watson, SELF, 8 Apr. 2022 Dermatologists sometimes refer to this eczema type as discoid eczema, another reference to its signature circular marks. Stephanie Watson, SELF, 8 Apr. 2022 Opah are discoid fish, meaning they are shaped like large discs. oregonlive, 15 July 2021 This type of eczema—often called nummular eczema or discoid eczema—happens after some kind of skin injury (like a bug bite, burn, or cut), SELF previously reported. Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Oct. 2020 It can also be used to treat discoid lupus erythematosus and systemic lupus erythematosus. Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 22 May 2020 In addition to malaria, the drug can also be used to treat acute and chronic rheumatoid arthritis, discoid lupus erythematosus and systemic lupus erythematosus. Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 19 May 2020 When 23-year-old Jokiva Bellard was diagnosed with discoid lupus five years ago, she was devastated. Hayley MacMillen, Allure, 23 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discoid
Adjective
  • One thing that particularly drew his interest was the idea of discoidal aircraft – what are more popularly known as flying saucers.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2025
  • One thing that particularly drew his interest was the idea of discoidal aircraft – what are more popularly known as flying saucers.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Guests descend several circular staircases into a network of chalk pits and galleries, parts of which date to the Gallo-Roman era.
    Rachel King, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Using the Wrong Food Plot Shapes People have been planting circular, square, and rectangular food plots for decades.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Southern Oregon is smack in the middle of the upcoming annular solar eclipse on October 14.
    Julia Duin, Outside Online, 6 June 2025
  • There can also be partial, annular or hybrid solar eclipses, depending on how much of the sun the moon covers.
    Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Or what happens if the cylinder is not perfectly spherical?
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2025
  • The Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun at a distance 1,000 times greater than the orbit of Neptune, is widely thought to be spherical — although it has never been directly observed.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • The globular segments of the abstract piece, Complexing, could be a kind of smudging, a devolving, of the pregnant and engorged curvilinear silhouette of an earlier figurative sculpture, Monument.
    Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • As a wave of radioactive green slime envelops him, his body begins to transform—limbs mutating, rows of bloody fangs emerging—his globular, wormlike form, slithering menacingly across the screen.
    Laura Holliday, Wired News, 2 May 2025

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“Discoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discoid. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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