Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A patchy brown or dark brown skin discoloration that usually occurs on a woman's face and may result from hormonal changes, as in pregnancy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Literally, greenness; in pathology, a name for a cutaneous affection characterized by patches of a yellow or yellowish-brown color, the pityriasis versicolor, occurring most frequently on the neck, breast, abdomen, and groin. The name is also applied less definitely to a number of brownish discolorations.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
- New Latin, from Greek khloasma, greenness, from khloazein, to be green, from khloos, greenish color; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This “mask of pregnancy” called chloasma usually disappears within a few weeks after your baby’s birth.”
“Skin changes: linea nigra, mask of pregnancy chloasma”
“• Skin changes: linea nigra, mask of pregnancy chloasma”
“These patches are known popularly as liver spots or in medical language as _chloasma_.”
“#Into what two general classes may the various examples of chloasma be grouped?”
“#What cases of chloasma are included in the symptomatic group?”
“Lentigo consists simply of a circumscribed deposit of pigment granules -- merely a localized increase of the normal pigment, differing from chloasma (_q.v. _) only in the size and shape of the pigmentation.”
“When upon exposed parts, stimulation of the patches, with the view of producing hyperæmia and consequent pigment deposit; conjoined with suitable applications to the surrounding pigmented skin, with a view to lessen the coloration (see _treatment of chloasma_), will be of aid in rendering the disease less conspicuous.”
“#What cases of chloasma are included in the idiopathic group?”
“It is not to be confounded with vitiligo, chloasma, or the macular syphiloderm.”
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