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dermatosis (dur″mә-to´sis) pl. dermato´ses Any noninflammatory disorder of the skin. lichenoid dermatosis
any skin disorder characterized by thickening and hardening of the skin. precancerous dermatosis
any skin condition in which the lesions, such as warts, nevi, or other excrescences, are likely to undergo malignant degeneration. subcorneal pustular dermatosis
a superficial, pustular disorder with a chronic relapsing course, resembling dermatitis herpetiformis, and chiefly affecting women in middle life, with sterile pustular blebs in the subcorneal tissue of the epidermis on the
trunk and in the major skin folds. Called also Sneddon-Wilkinson disease. transient acantholytic dermatosis
a self-limited papulovesicular disease usually seen in middle-aged persons, most often on the trunk, with histologic changes resembling those of follicular keratosis or benign familial pemphigus. It is sometimes an epidermal reaction to actinic injury. Called also Grover disease.
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