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scurf

[skərf]
(medicine)
A branlike desquamation of the epidermis, especially from the scalp; dandruff.
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Mid-summer and fall plantings resulted in slightly less Rhizoctonia black scurf than did spring plantings.
Biology and management of black scurf of potato.Ph.D Thesis, Department of biological sciences Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Anastomosis Group and Pathogenicity of Rhizoctonia solani Associated with Stem Canker and Black Scurf of Potato in Heilongjiang Province of China.
Medicinal use Parts of the plant Country used Abdominal pains Roots Tanzania Abscesses, Leaf decoction Mauritius carbuncle, and mixed with leaves scurf of Jatropha curcas L., Azadirachta indica A.
Equiderma is proven as an effective aid in the treatment of rain rot, cannon bone and face scurf and fungus, insect bite hypersensitivity, mane and tail itching, hot spots, subaceous adenitus, malezzia, and all skin issues that plague animals.
The spinning tip is first soaked and softened in lid cleaning solution and is then used to mechanically scurf off all the crusts, debris and cylindrical dandruff along the lid margins.
Trichoderma harzianum, effective microbe (EM) culture and biological potassium fertilizer (BPF) was evaluated for the management of soil-borne inoculum of Rhizoctonia solani the cause of black scurf of potato cv.
Given our intimation of the poet's impending mortality, such internal debates seem comically beside the point: insofar as death figures, it remains an abstract principle, as but one of so many competing voices, asserting that Sordello '"Study the corpse-face thro' the taint-worms' scurf!'" (VI.158).
In the male three to five-person team, Tyneside's four-strong Scurf's Got A Big Nose took the honours with 24 laps and at the same time helped raised [pounds sterling]2,000 to help provide a diabetes alert dog for young sufferer Rosie Dalkin.
In the male three to five-person team, Tyneside's four-strong Scurf's Got A Big Nose took the honours with 24 laps and at the same time helped raised PS2,000 to help provide a diabetes alert dog for young sufferer Rosie Dalkin.
Control of tuberborne black scurf (Rhizoctonia solani) and common scab (Streptomyces scabies) of potatoes with a combination of sodium hypochlorite and thiophanatemethyl preplanting seed tuber treatment.
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