(v. t.) A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.
(v. t.) Any small spot or discoloration.
(v. t.) To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot.
(v. i.) To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors conclude the sun-induced freckles in the young may consist of a hyperplasia of melanocytes (i.e., similar to solar lentigines in the elderly), sometimes with cellular atypia, and that these findings may be relevant to melanocytic neoplasia.
(2) The patient had mild clinical symptoms consisting of numerous pigmented freckles and a small number of seborrheic keratosis-like papules.
(3) A 43-year-old man with xeroderma pigmentosum, XP97TO, was allocated to complementation group D. He had had moderate photosensitivity at age 1 year and freckles by age 6 but no neurologic abnormalities.
(4) The patient had manifested moderate solar sensitivity and freckles by the age of 6 years.
(5) Clinical manifestation of neurofibromatosis include multiple cafe-au-lait spots, axillary freckles, congenital glaucoma, relative macrocephaly, radiologic findings of overtubulation of the long bones, and precocious puberty.
(6) Recognition of mucosal freckling around the appendiceal orifice helps identify the cecum and may be useful in the evaluation of cecal and appendiceal pathology.
(7) Freckling was positively correlated with higher counts; the severe freckling group had an estimated ratio of 1.9 (95% CI 1.3-2.8) compared with those with no or very few freckles.
(8) The index of agreement (calculated as the intra-class correlation coefficient) was 59.7% and 69.0% for freckling on the right forearm and on the shoulders, respectively; agreement was above 50% for only one of six pairs of clinicians in examining freckling on the right forearm, while agreement was above 50% for four of the six pairs of clinicians in examination of freckling on the shoulder.
(9) While my pink, freckled body is blank and pictureless, my father's is an ink-splattered historical document.
(10) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
(11) "Sure, there's no time limit," a red-haired freckled-faced teenager had told us as she showed Rex and me to our bedsit-sized cubicle.
(12) In 508 students the burning-tanning histories were compared with eye and hair color, freckling tendency, and number of moles.
(13) Computerized image analysis was used to compare lentigines (brown freckle-like cutaneous spots) induced by treatment with psoralens and ultraviolet light A (PUVA-induced lentigines) with those induced by solar exposure (actinic lentigines).
(14) It may have been, in part, an artefact due to increased recognition of Hutchinson's melanotic freckle in this sub-group of the population.
(15) Focused and defocused modes were applied to various lesions ranging from cysts to freckles.
(16) With the job all but done, Mayweather slid and ran, Alvarez kept lunging, his allotted time now down to three minutes, the frustration painted on his freckled face.
(17) In childhood the incidence of IH exceeds that of cutaneous neurofibromas and axillary freckling.
(18) This means that phenotypic characters suggest low MED values only in individuals with red hair, blue eyes and many freckles.
(19) In 15% of these the histogenetic pattern of Hutchinson's melanotic freckle could be observed in the epidermis, adjacent to the invasive melanoma.
(20) Additionally, children with freckles have higher mean nevus count in every category of skin complexion.
Mole
Definition:
(v. t.) To clear of molehills.
(n.) A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
(n.) A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.
(n.) A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
(n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.
(n.) Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.
(n.) A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.
(v. t.) To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(2) The sigmoidal shape of the curve of rate constant vs mole percent anionic lipid is consistent with a positively cooperative effect of the negative surface charge.
(3) In the partial moles there is a slow hydatidiform change that affects only some of the villi, but which seems to follow along the same lines as in complete moles.
(4) Metabolism of DEHT by the rat appears to occur via rapid hydrolysis of both ester linkages to give two moles of 2-ethylhexanol and one mole of terephthalic acid.
(5) A complete hydatidiform mole (CM) had a 92,XXXX karyotype.
(6) The clinical and histological features of these moles have been designated the "B-K mole syndrome."
(7) The enzyme catalyzing d-amino acid oxidation was present in extracts of cells grown on valine, but not on glucose, had a pH optimum of approximately 9.0, consumed 1 atom of oxygen per mole of keto acid produced, and was not stimulated by any of the usual electron transport cofactors.
(8) A peroxidase conjugated-antibody (1.5 mole of enzyme per mole of antibody) was obtained and used for microwell enzyme immunoassay and Immun-Blot assay.
(9) The intrinsic inhibitory potency of this polymer increased with increasing degree of substitution with A35, approaching that of free A35 with substitution of approximately 3 mol of A35 per mole of dextran.
(10) Compared to women of group O or B, women of group A and AB had an elevated relative risk (RR) of benign mole (RR = 1.4 and 2.3, respectively).
(11) Five moles of ATP was consumed for each mole of phosphodiester bonds cleaved.
(12) The maximum effect was obtained with 10(-7) molar gibberellic acid, whereas concentrations greater than 5 x 10(-7) mole per liter were inhibitory.
(13) Yeast tRNAPhe containing a phosphorothioate modified -CS-CS-A terminus binds two moles of chloroterpyridineplatinum(II).
(14) Extracellular polysaccharides contain glucose, mannose, galactose, and xylose; G+C in DNA is 62 mole percent.
(15) The extent of sialylation of oligosaccharides in the three hCG samples used in this study were 88% in normal hCG, 82% in invasive mole hCG and 63% in choriocarcinoma hCG.
(16) A review of the literature revealed that this patient appears to be the first case of nephrotic syndrome associated with a total mole, although there have been two cases of nephrotic syndrome due to preeclamptic nephropathy associated with a partial or transitional mole.
(17) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(18) Our estimated rate of 7.5 hydatidiform moles per 10,000 pregnancies was similar to most reported rates for the United States.
(19) The current study was undertaken in an effort to identify the clinical characteristics and natural history of partial moles.
(20) The presence of millimolar concentrations of ATP, phenylalanine and pyrophosphate triggers negative cooperativity and under these conditions only one mole of Phe-tRNAphe is bound per mole of enzyme with a Kd value of 0.15 muM.