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.
1550s, from Middle French myriade and directly from Late Latin myrias (genitive myriadis) ten thousand, from Greek myrias (genitive myriados) a number of ten thousand, countless numbers, from myrios (plural myrioi) innumerable, countless, infinite; boundless, as a definite number, ten thousand (the greatest number in Greek expressed by one ...