(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(9) While my pink, freckled body is blank and pictureless, my father's is an ink-splattered historical document.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.
Spot
Definition:
(n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
(n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
(n.) A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
(n.) A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
(n.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
(n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
(n.) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
(n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
(v. t.) To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.
(v. t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
(v. i.) To become stained with spots.
Example Sentences:
(1) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.
(2) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(3) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
(4) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(5) Our findings: (1) both forms, LC1 and LC3, migrate in the two species with rather similar electrophoretic constants (both in terms of pI and Mr); (2) the LC2 forms of rabbit and humans exhibit the same Mr but quite different pI values, the rabbit forms being more acidic; (3) the chain LC2Sb is resolved into two spots in both rabbit and humans.
(6) You just have to be the first person to spot a coach.
(7) The overall effect achieved with LTS was less than that with LTP, but it is possible to reduce IOP by selecting more reasonable parameters, e.g., a laser setting of 200mW, a 50 microns spot size and a 0.5 to 1-sec duration.
(8) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
(9) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(10) Detection limits were then calculated for the different sizes of cold spots.
(11) These complications were believed to be caused by the use of a small spot size with high energy.
(12) In the brownish skin and in the black spots of the dorsal region all types of chromatophores are found.
(13) I can always spot something for my sisters Gretchen and Amy.
(14) Debeaking had no effect on the incidence of blood-spotting in the eggs.
(15) Six abnormal colonoscopic appearances were documented, namely mucosal edema, ulcers, friability, punctate spots, erythematous areas and luminal exudate.
(16) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(17) This appears to be a newly described entity, although it resembles a Becker's nevus without hypertrichosis or an typical café au lait spot.
(18) A £100,000 bronze statue of an ordinary family, the Joneses, will be unveiled in a prime spot outside the city’s library which opened last year.
(19) When delta phi was enlarged, first saccades were either directed near the green or the red spot (bistable response mode).
(20) Join us for a spot of future gazing as we discuss: The challenges and opportunities colleges and training providers will face over the next five years International expansion The role of FE in higher education New ways to diversify New technology – the possibilities and risks.