Path. [L. vitilīgo tetter.] A skin disease characterized by the presence of smooth white shining tubercles on the face, neck, and other parts of the body; a species of leprosy.
1657. Physical Dict., Vitiligo, a foulness of the skin with spots of divers colours. Morphew.
1693. trans. Blancard’s Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Vitiligo, a sort of Leprosie; there are Three kinds of them [etc.].
1814. Bateman, Cutaneous Dis. (ed. 3), 274. The disease, which is here intended to be designated by the term Vitiligo, is … somewhat rare.
1864. W. T. Fox, Skin Dis., 21. Albinism, vitiligo, deformities of vascular and sebaceous structure.
1889. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., VIII. 604/1. The dark-skinned races are rather more subject to vitiligo than those of fair skin and light hair.
Hence ǁ Vitiligoidea, a skin-disease resembling vitiligo.
1873. F. T. Roberts, The. & Pract. Med., 779. A peculiar enlargement [of the liver] associated with vitiligoidea.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 767. Two cases are … discussed by Addison and Gull … in relation to vitiligoidea.
