keratosis
Americannoun
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any horny growth of keratin on the skin, as a wart.
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any horny growth of keratin elsewhere, as on the tonsils.
noun
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any skin condition marked by a horny growth, such as a wart
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a horny growth
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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
For conditions like keratosis pilaris—which consist of “plugs” of cells in hair follicles, often on the upper arms and thighs—exfoliation is key here, too.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2018
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
How would you distinguish the small-papular syphiloderm from keratosis pilaris, psoriasis punctata, papular eczema, and lichen ruber?
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
Seborrheic keratoses are benign skin growths sometimes referred to as barnacles.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
A: Seborrheic keratoses are tan, brown or black skin growths that may be rough.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Actinic keratoses are called precancerous because they can sometimes turn into squamous cell carcinoma.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2017
There were nevi and keratoses, but no melanomas or carcinomas.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
After years of exposure to sunlight, the damage becomes visible first as small, scaly, precancerous spots called keratoses, usually on middle-aged or older people and in areas of the skin generally not protected by clothing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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