Pachydermy

Quick meaning: Pachydermy is a noun meaning (medicine) A condition in which the skin thickens and becomes hardened or verrucous.

Meaning

(medicine) A condition in which the skin thickens and becomes hardened or verrucous.

More Meanings

1. Insensitivity.

Example Sentences

Now, may we hope a shift of paradigm and a shake-up of operational pachydermy will take place ?

The haughty foreign secretary, to whom for the next fifty years all stories of aristocratic pachydermy were attached, was still to come.

Here in Edinburgh, whether on account of the pachydermy of its people or because the secretion is less virulent than it is elsewhere, cases of dermatitis caused by the plant are few.

If, as the inflammation recurs, the pachydermy spread beyond the point originally attacked, all the different grades of the disease are often exhibited simultaneously in the same extremity.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pachyderma, pachylosis, pachulosis, pachydermia, acropachyderma, scleredema.

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