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. exp. discoid, disc rugulose, pale tan, with superficial white squamules near edge; g. rounded then truncate and free; s. solid, fusiformly rooting, rather woolly with white imbricated squamules. punctatum, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. 3-5 cm. ovate, exp. lacunose, squamulose, discoid, umber-brown, edge ochre; g. adfixed; s. 5-9 cm. peronate with squarrose scales up to superior ring, scales at length falling away; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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