"Any of a group of chiefly chronic skin diseases characterized by the presence of scaly lesions thought to resemble those of psoriasis, several of which are now recognized to be caused by benign or pre-malignant clonal proliferation of T cells", Early 20th cent.; earliest use found in British Journal of Dermatology. From French parapsoriasis from para- + psoriasis.[parapsoriasis etymology, parapsoriasis origin, 英语词源]
"A malignant clonal proliferation of plasma cells, typically causing multiple lytic tumours in bones and usually associated with the presence of abnormal proteins in the blood and urine", Late 19th cent. From multiple + myeloma, after German multiples Myelom.