Path. [mod. L., f. Gr. ξανθός yellow + ἔλασμα metal plate.] = XANTHOMA. Also attrib. Hence Xanthelasmic a. = XANTHOMATOUS; ǁ Xanthelasmoidea [see -OID], a disease resembling xanthelasma, which leaves yellowish or brownish patches on the skin; also called vitiligoidea.
1867. W. J. E. Wilson, Diseases of Skin (ed. 6), xxiv. 773. Epithelial hypertrophy … to which from its colour and laminated appearance we have given the name of xanthelasma.
1900. J. Hutchinson, in Archives Surg., XI. No. 41. 10. There is none of the characteristic xanthelasma leather. Ibid., 18. She … had xanthelasma spots on the eyelids. Ibid., 2. The xanthelasmic [form of jaundice].
1899. Syd. Soc. Lex., Xanthelasmoidea.
1903. Lancet, 30 May, 1521/2. If further investigation should prove that in xanthelasmoidea the coagulability is high it will thus be more decisively separated from the urticarias.
