The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word RINGWORM
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More clues leading to the result RINGWORM
- Call wife or mistress initially making a complaint
- Doctor wrong to lance lip infection
- Doctor wrong to get involved in lip disorder
- Phone woman getting old marine infection
- Band cut up, admitting source of recent infection
- Pen industry latterly knocked out by mass disease
- Complaint of maiden quarrelling, upset after call
- Somewhere in Hants, old duke leaves room upset
- Skin disease revealed in phone call by creep
- Disease going badly wrong within boundary
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What does RINGWORM mean?
RINGWORM noun- A contagious fungal infection of the skin, characterised by ring-shaped discoloured patches, covered by vesicles or scales.