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. 1.5-2 cm. conico-exp. umb. naked, discoid, opaque, dark brown or greyish, striate at paler margin; g. adnate; s. even, glabrous, rooting, pallid, 4-5 cm.; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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 Massee, George