LIVER SPOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liver spot mean? 

• LIVER SPOT (noun)
  The noun LIVER SPOT has 1 sense:

1. a type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin

  Familiarity information: LIVER SPOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIVER SPOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("liver spot" is a kind of...):

macula; macule (a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases)

Holonyms ("liver spot" is a part of...):

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

 Context examples 

The concept includes senile lentigo ('liver spots') and nevoid lentigo (nevus spilus, lentigo simplex) and may also occur in association with multiple congenital defects or congenital syndromes (e.g., Peutz-Jeghers syndrome).

(Lentigo, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)