Modifying Another Word

• slightly: Patients develop a widespread, slightly scaly rash which can look like either eczema or psoriasis.

• sometimes: This can appear as faint pale dry areas, sometimes scaly, on the cheeks of children.

• very: If the scalp is very scaly then a shampoo containing coal tar or salicylic acid may help to remove it.

Modifies a noun

• rash: People with SLE often develop facial rashes; these can vary from a mild redness on both cheeks to a more pronounced scaly rash.

• patch: The symptoms are bald, scaly patches with broken hairs on the patch.

• skin: I was covered with a scaly skin which was a golden color.

• tail: The young rat, pictured here, differs from mice in having a very thick, scaly tail.

• plaque: Skin changes What is going on in the skin of people with psoriasis to produce the red scaly plaques?

• area: They are noticed as red scaly areas on sun exposed sites.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Areas of skin that become scaly, itchy, tender or red, or areas that ooze, bleed or become crusty.