(n.) A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle.
(v.) To blur; especially (Print.), to blur or double an impression from type. See Mackle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three types of lesions were observed: red plaques, pityriasis versicolor (PV)-like macules and plane warts.
(2) The case also showed characteristic palmar melanotic macules.
(3) We report the clinical features, electrophysiologic findings, and dapsone and isoniazid excretion studies in three young people who ingested excessive amounts (2-4 times the prescribed dose) of dapsone for hypopigmented macules and who developed, subacutely, progressive motor neuropathy a few months later.
(4) Nodular lesions were found in three patients, who did not have macules.
(5) A 44-year-old woman was diagnosed as having unilateral multiple progradient pigmented macules and papules of the upper extremity and adjacent part of the back.
(6) The lesions developed as solitary, slowly extending, erythematous macules and plaques, usually occurring on the extremities or the shoulders in adolescents or adults.
(7) An asymptomatic macule or patch may be the first recognizable feature.
(8) We report a case of a 10-month-old male infant with GM1 type 1 gangliosidosis who also had hyperpigmented macules and patches.
(9) In this group, flat melanotic macules around the eyes were located on the opposite parts of the upper and lower eyelids.
(10) Hair cell polarization patterns were investigated on the sensory macule of the sacculus and lagena of the lake whitefish.
(11) Histological examination using serial sections were performed on 47 cases and showed evidence of dermal melanocytosis in 40 cases (85%) consisting of 33 (70%) without clinically detectable macules and 7 (15%) with obvious pigmented macules.
(12) In some HIV-infected patients the cause of the macules might relate to the administration of zidovudine and antifungal or antibacterial drugs.
(13) The skin lesions that are often seen are hypopigmented circular macules, measuring approximately 0.5 cm in diameter.
(14) This disease, which affects children and teenagers, males as well as females, is characterized by pigmented macules 5-25 mm in diameter, affecting the neck, the trunk and the limbs.
(16) Generalized discrete hypopigmented macules forming a camouflage pattern appeared on the skin of a man.
(17) A hypopigmented macule on her face along with neuroimaging studies suggested an inflammatory process.
(18) Photoactivated psoralens were studied in sixty cases of tuberculoid leprosy for the repigmentation of hypopigmented macules.
(19) This article describes the light and electron microscopic studies from a macule and the surrounding lightly hyperpigmented skin of a patient with the Cronkhite-Canada syndrome.
(20) Pigmented macules and plaques in the oral cavity, representing the radial growth phase of tumors, often go unrecognized for months or years before tumor invasion.
Papule
Definition:
(n.) Same as Papula.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
(2) The classical form most commonly observed on the buccal, palatal and labial mucosa shows a fine lacework of white papules and lines.
(3) Cutaneous macroglobulinosis is characterized by multiple flesh-colored papules on extensor skin surfaces.
(4) These lesions are nondescript papules or nodules primarily involving the head and neck areas of young adults.
(5) All patients had punch biopsies taken from (1) a lesion containing Sarcoptes scabiei, (2) an inflammatory papule which did not contain a mite, and (3) normal skin.
(6) Widespread keratotic papules and striking hyperkeratosis of the palms and soles went unrecognized as a manifestation of tuberculosis, thereby delaying treatment in a patient with AIDS-related complex.
(7) Two morphological variants have been observed, typical wart-like flat-topped papules and larger confluent plaques.
(8) In 94% of the patients with dermatitis herpetiformis, a locally applied ointment with an ester of nicotinic acid (Trafuril) induced an abnormal reaction with erythema, edema, papules, and often vesicles.
(9) A 15-month-old girl had orange papules that formed V-shaped lines on her back.
(10) Sixteen cases of pruritic papules of pregnancy were collected during a 32-month period.
(11) PUPP is a specific eruptive dermatosis in pregnancy, clinically characterized by erythematous papules and plaques with intense itching in periumbilical localization.
(12) The child in an immunocompromised state who develops a red papule, then a black eschar with surrounding erythema, should have immediate biopsy that can easily demonstrate the characteristic hyphal forms.
(13) The patient had mild clinical symptoms consisting of numerous pigmented freckles and a small number of seborrheic keratosis-like papules.
(14) This favors the proliferation of Propionibacterium acnes which may initiate inflammation in microcomedos and lead to formation of pustules, papules or nodules.
(15) A 54-year-old female patient recurrently developed disseminated papules, red-brown in color and partly ulcerous, which spontaneously disappeared after 3-6 weeks.
(16) The disease was preceded by an erythema multiforme-like exanthema and urticarial papules.
(17) The reduction in number of papules and pustules was not statistically significant on either treatment.
(18) Widespread pruritic, urticarial papules developed at times of stress and exercise, each papule being surrounded by a striking blanched vasoconstricted halo.
(19) We have recently demonstrated that in pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP) there are multiple dermal fibroblasts with no deposition of mucin.
(20) In addition, we discuss the clinical differential diagnosis of multiple firm, skin-colored papules.