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Definition of Seborrheic keratosis
1. Noun. A skin condition characterized by circumscribed wartlike lesions that can be itchy and covered with a greasy crust.
Medical Definition of Seborrheic keratosis
1. A benign skin lesion resulting from excessive growth of the top layer of skin cells. It usually is found in persons over 30 years old and may be few or numerous. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seborrheic Keratosis
Literary usage of Seborrheic keratosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Skin Cancer by Henry Honeyman Hazen (1916)
"seborrheic keratosis of the lip 214 76. seborrheic keratosis of the lower lip
215 77. Ulcerated prickle-celled carcinoma of the lower lip 216 78. ..."
2. A Treatise on diseases of the skin for advanced students and practitioners by Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1916)
"... the term seborrheic keratosis is also often employed to designate these
formations, and often includes, in fact, the seborrheic wart. ..."
3. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"Lupus erythematosus, chloasma, Paget's disease, and impetigo herpetiformis occur
oftenest in women, while epithelioma, seborrheic keratosis, ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology by William Allen Pusey (1917)
"8S9 Seborrheic eczema, 400 Seborrheic dermatitis, 400 seborrheic keratosis, 873
Seborrheic wart, 873 Sebum, composition of, 56 Secondary changes in ..."
5. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"A definite group of cases follows seborrheic keratosis (Montgomery, Sutton).
Many cases are clearly traceable to the irritation of pipe or cigar. ..."
6. Compendium of abstracts of papers on the therapeutic use of radiumby Radium Chemical Company by Radium Chemical Company (1920)
"The lesion was undoubtedly a seborrheic keratosis, and not a patch of psoriasis,
and it was a lesion which if left to itself, would likely have degenerated ..."
7. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"403; "The symptomatology and treatment of seborrheic keratosis." 1 Amer. Jour.
Med. Sco., 1899, cxviii, p. 265. ; Jour. Cut. Dis., 1909, xxvii, p. 130. ..."
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