dandruff

dandruff

loose scales of dry dead skin shed from the scalp

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dandruff

[′dan·drəf]

(medicine)

Scales of dry sebum formed on the scalp in seborrhea.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Dandruff

 

grayish white scaly material that is desquamated from the epidermis of the scalp. The formation of dandruff may be a normal occurrence or a symptom of such skin diseases as seborrhea.

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