Fox-Fordyce disease /foksfôr′dīs/ [G.H. Fox, American dermatologist, 1846–1937; John Addison Fordyce, American dermatologist, 1858–1925] , a chronic skin disease, usually seen in women, characterized by small papular eruptions and other skin changes of apocrine gland-bearing areas, especially the axillae and pubes, caused by obstruction and rupture of the intraepidermal part of the ducts of the glands. Also called apocrine miliaria, Fordyce-Fox disease.
