age spots

American  

plural noun

1. benign brown spots that appear on the hands and face or other skin exposed to the sun, common in old age.

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Etymology

Origin of age spots

First recorded in 1890–95

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Example Sentences

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age spots

Typically, the brown age spots will crust over at the surface, then start sloughing off after a few days, revealing fresh skin.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2021

People who are exposed to common air pollutants have higher rates of chronic skin inflammation and more age spots than do those who live in cleaner areas1.

From Nature ● Nov. 20, 2018

At 65, he now had age spots on his face, jowls, thin white hair edging out from under his hat.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 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

To exaggerate a bit, the one-in-eleven figure is a little like saying that nine out of ten people will develop age spots, which doesn’t mean it should be a major preoccupation of thirty-year-olds.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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