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. convex, glabrous, umbilicately depr. discoid, hyalino-striate, pallid fuscous; g. adnate, narrow; s. long, rigid, blackish brown. vertiruga, Cke.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Heads many-flowered, nearly discoid; flowers all fertile, the marginal chiefly pistillate and 3–5-toothed.

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