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Definition of Spider nevus
1. Noun. A dilation of superficial capillaries with a central red dot from which blood vessels radiate.
Medical Definition of Spider nevus
1. A branched growth of dilated capillaries on the skin, resembling a spider. This abnormality may be associated with cirrhosis of the liver. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spider Nevus
Literary usage of Spider nevus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the skin and the eruptive fevers by Jay Frank Schamberg (1908)
"The na?vus araneus, or spider nevus, is the form ordinarily seen. This most often
appears upon the face, and consists of a pin-head- or larger sized red ..."
2. Diseases of the Skin and the Eruptive Fevers by Jay Frank Schamberg (1915)
"The naevus araneus, or spider nevus, is the form ordinarily seen. This most often
appears upon the face, and consists of a pin-head- or larger sized red ..."
3. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"Usually included among the vascular nevi, but not at all in the same pathological
class, is the spider nevus. It consists of a bright-red, central point, ..."
4. Skin and Venereal Diseases (1908)
"... ones (on the face), which project slightly and approach the "spider nevus" (nevus
araneus) class or a kind of small,. superficial, cavernous nevus. ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology by William Allen Pusey (1917)
"VARICOSE VEINS AND SMALL ULCER OF LEO. (Author's collection.) radiating dilated
capillaries. This constitutes the so-called spider nevus, or nevus araneus. ..."
6. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"One of the common forms is that described as nems araneus, "spider nevus," or
the so-called "spider cancer." It is char- 1 Diseases of the Skin, p. 685. ..."
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