Morgellons

发音

UK /mɔː(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒɛlənz/
US /mɔɹˈd͡ʒɛlənz/
US /mɔɹˈɡɛlənz/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An unproven skin disorder, usually thought to be delusional parasitosis, characterized by skin lesions in which fibers are found.

    不可数 医学
  2. 2.

    A disease causing hairs to grow on the backs of children.

    废旧 不可数

词源

Coined in 2004 by Mary Leitao after a description of an illness in Thomas Browne's A Letter to a Friend (c. 1656, pub. 1690), “that Endemial Distemper of little Children in Languedock, called the Morgellons, wherein they critically break out with harsh Hairs on their Backs”, apparently a corruption of Masquelons, from Provençal masclous (“little flies”).

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