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LENTIGINOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lentiginous mean?
• LENTIGINOUS (adjective)
The adjective LENTIGINOUS has 1 sense:
1. relating to or covered with or resembling freckles
Familiarity information: LENTIGINOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or covered with or resembling freckles
Synonyms:
freckled; lentiginose; lentiginous
Similar:
patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))
Derivation:
lentigo (a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin)
Context examples
Several histologic variants have been recognized, including superficial spreading melanoma, acral lentiginous melanoma, nodular melanoma, and lentigo maligna melanoma.
(Cutaneous Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An acral lentiginous melanoma affecting mucosal surfaces.
(Mucosal Lentiginous Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Most often, melanomas arise in the skin (cutaneous melanomas) and include the following histologic subtypes: superficial spreading melanoma, nodular melanoma, acral lentiginous melanoma, and lentigo maligna melanoma.
(Melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)
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