xerosis

English

Etymology

From xero- +‎ -osis.

Noun

xerosis (countable and uncountable, plural xeroses)

1. (medicine) Dryness.
   • 2015, Ruth Bryant, Denise Nix, Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Concepts, page 271:

     Xerosis is a consequence of the skin's loss of natural moisturizing factors and loss of moisture from the stratum corneum and intercellular matrix (Hill, 2008).

See also

• xerotic