liver spots

American  

[liv-er] / ˈlɪv ər /

noun

Pathology.

1. a form of chloasma in which irregularly shaped light-brown spots occur on the skin.

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Etymology

Origin of liver spots

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

“It was then a sump of aged men with liver spots, claws, and bourbon breath, who strode the chamber with reptilian gait and hailed one another with mellifluent courtesies.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2022

Also known as liver spots, these rounded, bloblike, flat pigmented areas collect on the face and hands and add years to a person’s appearance.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2021

His eyes are glistening beads under bushy eyebrows, spittle dribbles down his scraggly beard, liver spots decorate his weathered face.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2020

He is bald as a badger, and his hands are fantastically embossed with liver spots, gnarls and wrinkles.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 7, 2020

Her eyes were thick with cataracts and sunken into folds of transparent skin, and her whole face was dotted with broken veins and liver spots.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling