rough skin
Sandpapery to touch
Rough skin is skin that feels coarse, dry, or uneven to the touch rather than smooth.
The phrase describes texture rather than appearance: My hands get rough skin in winter, The lotion helps with rough skin on elbows and heels.
Rough skin can result from dryness, weather exposure, or conditions like keratosis pilaris.
- dryFree from moisture
- scalyCovered with thin plates
- crackedHaving surface fractures
- cracked heelsDry, split foot skin
- callousedThickened from wear
dry patches · chapped · sandpaper · texture · flaky · coarse · lizard · eczema · moisturizer · lotion · body butter · peeling · weathered · harsh weather · leathery · bumpy · irritated · parched
- skin problemswrinkles, eczema, acne, lesions, blackheads
- drynessarid, aridity, dry, dehydrated, bone dry
- Granular Materialssand grains, gravel, pebbles, silt, grit
- B vitamin deficiencypellagra, beriberi, thiamine deficiency, B12 deficiency, Korsakoff syndrome