(n.) Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most hemangiomas are small, harmless birthmarks that appear soon after birth, proliferate for 8 to 18 months, and then slowly regress over the next 5 to 8 years, leaving normal or slightly blemished skin.
(2) We examined all babies born live (4346) at two Finnish hospitals in the course of one year to determine the frequency of birthmarks, specially pigmented lesions, among Finnish newborns.
(3) Birthmarks came out in 1988, when he was 31, The Lost Leader not till 2008, when he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and knew he did not have long to live.
(4) The sense of an inescapable history that is a keynote of Birthmarks permeates much of the later collection to savage or tragic or absurd effect.
(5) Thermal profiles of ectatic capillaries, modelled on those found in port wine stain birthmarks, are calculated by a method of finite differences.
(6) A naevus is a, 'birthmark; a circumscribed malformation of the skin, especially if coloured by hyperpigmentation or increased vascularity; it may be predominantly epidermal, adnexal, melanocytic, vascular, or mesodermal, or a localised overgrowth of melanin-forming cells arising in the skin early in life.'
(7) Most vascular birthmarks can be categorized, based on clinical and cellular criteria, as either (1) a hemangioma, or (2) a malformation, or (3) a macular stain.
(8) The satisfactory results obtained by laser treatment have increased the number of patients seeking consultation regarding their birthmarks.
(9) One or two peevish voices thought Imlah too clever, too dustily "Oxonian", failing to see how mordantly modern many of the fables and instances in Birthmarks are, within their formal virtuosity and confidently literary bearing.
(10) Pictures of a half-naked four-year-old boy with a "mark of the devil" birthmark on his chest were published by the Sun on its front page, prompting MPs to complain the article was irresponsible, embarrassing and damaging to the child.
(11) The frequencies of the types of birthmarks were: mongolian spots, 81.5%; salmon patches, 22.3%; nevocellular nevi, 2.7%; port-wine stains, 2.1%; strawberry marks, 1.7%; café au lait spots, 1.7% (including a case of von Recklinghausen's disease); epidermal and sebaceous nevi, 0.3%; accessory auricles, 0.3%; and smooth muscle hamartomas, 0.2%.
(12) An increased risk was found only for birthmarks, and specifically for hemangiomas, for children with parents exposed to pesticides in the floriculture industry.
(13) A biologic classification based on clinical behavior and endothelial cell characteristics is used to divide vascular birthmarks into two groups: hemangiomas and vascular malformations.
(14) This article reviews the nature of that distress and the stigmatization suffered by patients with disfiguring birthmarks.
(15) In 1994 he wrote of this work in progress: "If Birthmarks says, we can only be what we are, this says, we can fail to be even that."
(16) All involved complex vascular networks, and about one half of the patients had red or purple birthmarks.
(17) In addition to birthmarks, it was determined that 30.3% of the 508 babies examined at one of the two hospitals had toxic erythema of the newborn.
(18) 148 neonates had birthmarks which were erythema toxicum (ET) in 103 cases, vascular lesions in 19, pigmented in 8, and miscellaneous lesions in 18.
(19) Patients with port-wine stains are now able to receive treatment to improve significantly their birthmark.
(20) Within this diagnosis, several authors have reported the simultaneous occurrence of three different birthmarks, viz., a pigmentary nevus, a telangiectatic nevus and a nevus anemicus.
Nevus
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it involved mixed clinical and histological changes of epidermal nevus from fingers to elbow.
(2) This appears to be a newly described entity, although it resembles a Becker's nevus without hypertrichosis or an typical café au lait spot.
(3) A giant congenital pigmented nevus combining an epidermal and a blue nevus is described in a boy.
(4) In view of the difficulties encountered in clinical differential diagnosis, above all with reference to malignant melanoma, nevus lesions should be removed from the oral mucosa.
(5) The increase of the relative risk was 16 x for persons with greater than 60 MCN compared to individuals with greater than or equal to 10 MCN and there was an additional 7 x increase of the relative risk for persons with greater than or equal to 1 dysplastic nevus.
(6) Binding of monoclonal antibodies secreted by hybridomas generated by immunization of mice with VGP primary and metastatic melanoma was highest with cells and supernatants of cultures from advanced melanoma and least with nevus cells.
(7) The clinical and histopathological picture of a 27-year-old patient with generalized nevus verrucosus is described.
(8) Kamino's eosinophilic globules could be considered another important sign for the differential diagnosis between pigmented spindle cell nevus and malignant melanoma.
(9) An extensive congenital melanocytic nevus is described which, in its deeper portion, had striking neurofibromatous features.
(10) The growth of nevus cells is probably comparable to that induced in other cells by traumatic injury.
(11) Spherical nevus cells however are completely devoid of dendritic processes.
(12) The association between melanoma and giant congenital nevocellular nevus has been well documented, although controversy still exists regarding the precise incidence.
(13) Dermal fibroblasts from patients with the autosomal dominant cancer-prone disease Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome (BCNS) exhibit a serum dependence, anchorage dependence and in vitro lifespan (about 20 population doublings or less) similar to those of fibroblasts from normal age-, race- and sex-matched controls.
(14) Some of the them have made in possible to localize the gene of the familial cutaneous melanoma with pleomorphic nevus on 1p chromosome.
(15) Two lesions occurred in examples of nevus sebaceus of Jaddasohn.
(16) Our study shows that HMB-45 also reacts with cells of the blue nevus, a unique type of intradermal nevus.
(17) In contrast to the broad reactivity with melanomas, isolated nevus nests were stained in only 1 of 55 nevi investigated.
(18) We report on a nevus of the oral mucosa, which became present in the age of 30 of a male patient.
(19) Melanoma most often develops in the skin; usually at the site of a preexisting nevus.
(20) To our knowledge, this represents the second reported case of marked folding of the skin; with an underlying nevus lipomatosus; this case demonstrated an association of this cutaneous disorder with multiple defects, including chromosomal abnormalities, which have not been previously reported.