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Coined by Mary Leitao after a usage by w:Thomas Browne|Sir Thomas Browne, apparently a corruption of the Provençal term masclous, "little flies".
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- pathology A controversial, unproven diagnostic entity of unknown etiology usually dismissed as delusional parasitosis, particularly when other objective diagnoses cannot be attained. Characterized by skin lesions producing odd fibers of origin apparently unknown to science. Also, morgellons disease.
#:1690 But Hairs make fallible Predictions, and many Temples early gray have out-lived the Psalmist's Period. Hairs which have most amused me have not been in the Face or Head, but on the Back, and not in Men but Children, as I long ago observed in that Endemial Distemper of little Children in Languedock, called the Morgellons, wherein they critically break out with harsh Hairs on their Backs, which takes off the Unquiet Symptomes of the Disease, and delivers them from Coughs and Convulsions. � Sir Thomas Browne, "s:A Letter to a Friend|A Letter to a Friend".
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