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O’Conner said in a memo released by the White House that a biopsy showed that the legion was seborrheic keratosis, a “very common, totally harmless, non-cancerous growth.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2023

“It’s a noncancerous seborrheic keratosis, but our guy has to wait six weeks for a doctor’s appointment and spends that time moping around, wishing he’d stopped to smell the roses more often.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2022

They’re called unflattering names: age spots, barnacles or, God help us, senile warts, but physicians know them as seborrheic keratosis lesions, or SK lesions, for short.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018

The photodermatology clinic at St. John’s Institute, in Central London, where she was first diagnosed as having seborrheic dermatitis, and where a biopsy could be made, was about a ninety-minute drive away.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2016

He has seborrheic dermatitis, which means that his skin appears to be constantly in a state of rash.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan