discoid

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But more significantly, another joke at singer Seal’s expense was not about his race — it was about his FACE, which is scarred by a type of lupus called discoid lupus erythematous.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2016

Let Me In closes the album in darkly shimmering style, the epic climax to 43 minutes of discoid posturing and deathless yearning.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2011

His dermatologist, Dr Arnold Klein, has said that around the same time Jackson had also been diagnosed with discoid lupus, an auto-immune disease that causes skin lesions, loss of pigment and permanent alopecia.

From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2010

P. hemisph. then discoid, even, glabrous, chalk-white disc pale umber, 3 cm.; g. adnate; s. whitish, hollow, 7-10 cm.; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Heads rather many-flowered, discoid; flowers as in Pluchea, the central usually sterile.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa