Disease
For more details on this topic, see skin disease.Diseases of the skin include skin infections and skin neoplasms (including skin cancer).
Dermatology is the branch of medicine that deals with conditions of the skin.
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Famous quotes containing the word disease:
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
—Constitution of the World Health Organization.
“War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“His poor self,
A dedicated beggar to the air,
With his disease of all-shunned poverty,
Walks, like contempt, alone.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)