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NEVUS
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Irregular inflected form: nevi
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A blemish on the skin that is formed before birth
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("nevus" is a kind of...):
blemish; defect; mar (a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nevus"):
nevus flammeus; port-wine stain (a flat birthmark varying from pink to purple)
hemangioma simplex; strawberry; strawberry mark (a soft red birthmark)
Context examples:
A nevus that arises from the cervix.
(Cervical Blue Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)
A neoplastic cutaneous melanocyte that characterizes benign and atypical cutaneous neoplastic lesions called nevi.
(Nevus Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare melanoma which develops in a pre-existing blue nevus.
(Melanoma Arising from Blue Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)
An uncommon variant of melanocytic nevus.
(Balloon Cell Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)
It is also being studied in the treatment of basal cell skin cancer and basal cell nevus syndrome.
(Avage, NCI Dictionary)
A type of nevus (mole) that looks different from a common mole.
(Atypical mole, NCI Dictionary)
A nevus characterized by the presence of large epithelioid melanocytes.
(Epithelioid Cell Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)
A secondary melanocytic nevus that has developed in an ovarian dermoid cyst.
(Ovarian Dermoid Cyst with Melanocytic Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign nevus characterized by the absence of melanin pigment in the melanocytes.
(Nonpigmented Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign melanocytic nevus that arises from the breast skin.
(Breast Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)
