Atrophoderma

-mah. Atrophia cutis, atrophy of the skin, a wasting of the skin due to innutrition. See Atrophia cutis. A. albidum, a type of xeroderma in which the skin from the middle of the thigh to the sole, more rarely from the upper arm to the palm, is in places very white, stretched, and difficult to pick up, with the epidermis extremely thinned, faintly glistening, wrinkled, and peeling off in thin, shining flakes. There is extreme sensibility on the finger-tips, palms, and scles. The condition remains stationary from the earliest childhood. A. neuriticum. Glo y Skin; an atrophy of the skin in the area of a nerve affected by disease or injury. It chiefly attacks the extremities. The skin of the affected part becomes very dry, smooth, and glo y, like a thin scar; the fingers are tapering, hairle , and almost void of wrinkles and of a pink or deep-red color. A severe and persistent burning pain precedes and accompanies this con did on. The nails become curved both longitudinally and transversely, and there is some thickening of the cutis beneath the free end. A. pig men to sum. See Xeroderma pig men to sum. A.. Senile. See Atrophia cutis senilis. A. striatum et maculatum. an atrophic condition of the skin of adults characterized by streaks of a pearly or bluish white color, glistening, scar-like, from one inch to several inches long and a quarter of an inch or more wide, and which follow the natural cleavage of the skin, and are situated chiefly about the buttocks, anterior border of the ilium, trochanters, and thighs. The " spots " are le common, small, usually isolated, and are seen mostly on the trunk and neck.