The medical term for a condition of extremely dry skin is
scleroderma
sclerounguo
dermamalacia
astroderma
scleroderma
Rationale: Xer/o means dry and dermat/o means skin. The remaining options are nonsense distractors, except for scleroderma which means hardening of the skin.
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