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Definition of Liver spot
1. Noun. A type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin.
Definition of Liver spot
1. Noun. A dark brown blemish on the skin, usually caused by exposure to the sun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Liver spot
1. A variably pigmented lentigo occurring on exposed skin of older Caucasians. Synonym: liver spot, solar lentigo. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liver Spot
Literary usage of Liver spot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hooper's Physician's Vade Mecum; Or, A Manual of the Principles and Practice by Robert Hooper, William Augustus Guy (1854)
"... —LIVER-SPOT. SYNONYMS.—Cloasma; pannus hepaticus. SYMPTOMS.—The eruption is
preceded and accompanied by slight itching. It consists of small round spots ..."
2. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin by John Vietch Shoemaker (1901)
"CHLOASMA—PIGMENTATION OF THE SKIN—liver spot. Take of Phosphate of sodium 1 drachm.
4- Divide into twelve powders or capsules. Dose : One every two or three ..."
3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"... of pigment matter in the vascular apparatus of the gland." LIVER PIGMENT, see
Liver, nutmeg. LIVER, SCROFULOUS, Liver, albuminous. liver spot ..."
4. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science; Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1854)
"... occasionally applied to it, are, consequently, not distinctive. liver spot,
Chloasma—1. Tuberculated, Cirrhosis of the liver — 1. ..."
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