Title: Foods and places in dermatological terms
Authors:  Khalid Al Aboud MD[1], Khalid Al Hawasawi MD[1], V Ramesh MD[1], Daifullah Al Aboud MD[2], and Ahmed Al Githami MD[3]
Affiliations: 1. Dermatology Unit, Department of Medicine
King Faisal Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia
2. Dermatology Unit,  Department of Medicine, Jiad Hospital , Makkah , Saudi Arabia.
3. Dermatology division, Department of medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh , Saudi Arabia .  amoa65@hotmail.com
Citation: Dermatology Online Journal 9(3): 24

Body: 
I: To the Editor

Historically, many terms in dermatology are Latin-based. However, many are descriptive and compare the clinical appearance of a condition to the appearance a known object. Futhermore, some terms are derived from an area of the world where a disease is common or where it was first described.  We have collected those terms in dermatology that are linked to foods (Table I) and to geographical places(Table II).

I: Foods linked to dermatology[1, 2]
*Apple green: birefringence of amyloidosis
*Apple jelly: lupus vulgaris
*Blueberry muffin: vascular anomaly
*Cauliflower ear: trauma or inflammation
*Cayenne pepper spots: petechial macules in pigmented purpuras 
*Champagne bottle (inverted): appearance of legs in motor and sensory neuropathy type 1
*Framboesia (raspberry): yaws
*Peau d'orange: orange-peel appearance of infiltrative conditions
*Furfuraceous (branlike): scaling in tinea versicolor
*Grapes and bananas: microscopy in tinea versicolor
*Honey-coloured crust: impetigo
*Hordeolum (barleycorn): stye
*Kerion (honeycomb): tinea capitis
*Lemon-on-sticks: appearance of Cushing disease
*Lemon yellow: color in renal failure
*Lentil: lentigo
*Lobster claw: deformity in Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18)
*Milium: milia
*Mulberry molar: tooth of congenital syphilis
*Nutmeg grater: papulation on dorsa of hands in pityriasis rubra pilaris
*Ostraceous: oyster-like scales in psoriasis
*Pityriasis: bran-like scaling in many dermatoses
*Plucked chicken-skin: appearance of pseudoxanthoma elasticum
*Port: color of urine in erythropoietic porphyria
*Port-wine stain: vascular anomaly
*Spaghetti and meatballs: microscopy of tinea versicolor
*Strawberry, cherry: hemangioma
*Salmon patch: birthmark
*Tapioca pudding: vesicles in pompholyx
*Tripe palms: association with acanthosis nigricans



I: Geographic locales in dermatology[3, 4]
*Bagdad (Iraq): Bagdad boil (oriental sore)
*Brazil: Brazilian blastomycosis,  Brazilian pemphigus
*Buruli (Uganda): Buruli ulcer
*Calabar (Nigeria): Calabar swellings in loasis
*Dum-Dum (Calcutta): Dum-Dum fever (kala-azar)
*Ebola (river in Zaire): Ebola virus disease
*Fort Bragg (North Carolina): Fort Bragg fever (<i>Leptospira autumnalis</i>)
*Guinea (West Africa): Guinea worm (<i>Dracuncula medinensis</i>)
*Hong Kong: Hong Kong foot (tinea pedis)
*Katayama (mountain in Japan): Katayama disease (<i>Schistosoma japonicum</i>)
*La Oroya (Peru): Oroya fever (Carrion disease)
*Lyme (Connecticut): Lyme disease (tick-borne spirochete)
*Madura (South India): maduramycosis
*Major river systems (Japan): japanese river fever
*Malaya: Malayan filariasis
*Marburg (Germany): Marburg virus disease
*Marseilles (South Africa): Marseilles fever (rickettsia)
*Mediterranean Sea: familial Mediterranean fever
*Meleda (Yugoslav island): mal de Meleda
*Nairobi: Nairobi eye
*Norway: norwegian or keratotic scabies
*Pearl Harbor: Pearl Harbor itch
*Rocky Mountains (Colorado): Colorado tick fever (rickettsia)
*Rocky Mountain (North America): Rocky Mountain spotted fever (riskettsia)
*San Joaquin (California): San Joaquin valley fever (coccidiomycosis)
*South Africa: South African porphyria
*Tangier Island: Tangier disease
*Tokelau (New Zealand): Tokelau ringworm
*Tulare (California): Tularemia
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