What's the difference between freckle and naevose?
Freckle
Definition:
(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(9) While my pink, freckled body is blank and pictureless, my father's is an ink-splattered historical document.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.