acral

Of, relating to, or affecting peripheral parts, such as limbs, fingers, or ears.

Affecting the extremities.

• a. lick dermatitis — a skin disorder in dogs caused by their licking of a localized area of skin, usually on the lower limbs and particularly over the carpus or metatarsal region. The initiating cause is believed to be psychological but the area quickly becomes traumatized, often secondarily infected, and apparently pruritic which serves to intensify the licking and worsening of the lesion. Called also neurodermatitis, acral pruritic nodule, acropruritic nodule or granuloma, acral lick granuloma.
• a. mutilation syndrome — see hereditary sensory neuropathy.
• a. pruritic nodule — see acral lick dermatitis.