dandruff

skin condition mainly affecting the scalp causing flaking and itchiness
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q117484
dandruff
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dandruff

Summary

dandruff is a class of disease[1]. dandruff ranks in the top 10% of class_of_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,147 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • dandruff's instance of is recorded as class of disease[3].
  • dandruff is a type of desquamation[4].
  • dandruff is a type of pityriasis[5].
  • dandruff's Commons category is recorded as Dandruff[6].
  • dandruff's anatomical location is recorded as scalp[7].
  • dandruff's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • dandruff's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • dandruff's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 690.18[10].
  • dandruff's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C111657[11].
  • dandruff's health specialty is recorded as dermatology[12].
  • dandruff's WordLift URL is recorded as http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/dandruff[13].

Why It Matters

dandruff ranks in the top 10% of class_of_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,147 views/month).[2] dandruff has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] dandruff is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . medicalrecords.com. medicalrecords.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Anatomical location scalp
    Aliases
    Subclass of
    Health specialty dermatology
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 24063, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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