1885 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Handbk. Dis. Skin 511 The various dermatophytes..are not so constituted as regards size, shape, and arrangement as to be microscopically differentiated from each other.

1929 Biol. Rev. IV. 41 The name Dermatophytes is usually employed in a restricted sense, and is applied, not to all the fungi causing dermatomycoses, but only to those which cause superficial skin diseases or ringworms.

1970 G. Rebell & D. Taplin Dermatophytes (ed. 2) 4 The dermatophytes may be thought of as a group of taxonomically related fungi with affinity for cornified epidermis, hair, horn, nails, and feathers.

1970 G. Rebell & D. Taplin Dermatophytes (ed. 2) 6 Most dermatophyte thalli regularly undergo fluffy degenerative changes in laboratory culture.

1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Dermatophytic, relating, or appertaining, to dermatophytes.

1894 F. T. Roberts Theory & Pract. Med. ii. ii. xcviii. 1144 This class [sc. Parasitic Diseases] includes all the affections produced by the various animal and vegetable parasites that infest the human skin. We shall therefore..describe, firstly, dermatozoic affections..and, secondly, dermatophytic diseases.

1966 W. D. Stewart et al. Synopsis Dermatol. xv. 312 Dermatophytid is an eruption occurring secondary to a fungal infection.

1894 R. Quain et al. Dict. Med. (new ed.) 614/1 Epiphytic skin-diseases. Synon.: Tineae; Dermato-mycoses or Dermato-phytoses; Ringworms.

1934 Brit. Jrnl. Dermatol. 46 139 A young man with a typical dermatophytosis of the feet and a dermatophytid of the hands was successfully treated.

1971 Nature 5 Feb. 435/1 In industry..there were more than 5,000 spells of incapacity attributable to dermatophytosis from June 1967 to June 1968.