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.
Pronunciation; MEERÂ·eeÂ·ad. 1. (adj.) Composed of numerous diverse elements or facets: the myriad life of the metropolis. 2. (n.) Constituting a very large, indefinite number; innumerable: the myriad of fish in the ocean. 3. (n.) Sigma Controlsâ versatile controller. Can be used for a myriad of control applications.
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln.= solution, sup.he prevalent way to represent plurals for medical acronyms and initialisms is simply to affix a lowercase s (no apostrophe). 1  Example: one OCP, two OCPs [oral contraceptive pills].