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
The name Discomycetes, "disk-like fungi," does not give an accurate idea of the distinguishing characteristics of this sub-family, the discoid form only belonging to the plants of one of its groups.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
Contractile vacuoles 1-3, a complex of variable arrangement; pellicle delicate; plastids discoid chlorophyll-bodies; reserves oil; eye-spot absent even in active state; holophytic or saprophytic, though with an anterior blind tubular depression simulating a pharynx.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
