Harlequin ichthyosis is an extremely rare form of ichthyosis and the most severe. The newborn child is covered with plates of thick skin that crack and split apart. The thick skin plates can pull at and distort facial features.
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It's pronounced either 'skwur-il' or 'skwer'ryl' depending on location, I think, but two syllables. I grew up in the Dorchester area from mid 1950s to 1980. I moved near the border of Kentucky in 1980, and there THEY DO pronounce squirrel with one syllable and an accent, 'skwirl' or 'skwerl'.Arkansas folks says 'em different, and Oklahomy folks says 'em different. And we seen a lady from Massachusetts, an' she said 'em different of all. Couldn't hardly make out what she was sayin'!' . -- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939.