Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A congenital growth or mark on the skin, such as a mole or birthmark.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See nævus.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy A general term referring to a number of different, usually benign, pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal lesions of the skin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth
Etymologies
- Latin naevus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A nevus is a nest of cells that grows larger or more protuberant as we age.”
“It looks like what's called a nevus-it's something like a flat mole, usually quite harmless.”
“Neonatal blue-light phototherapy could increase the risk of dysplastic nevus development.”
“They can be pink, brown or orange in appearance and can resemble moles, skin tags, an ordinary nevus (birth mark), or hemangiomas.”
“When something goes wrong within the cells of a pigmented nevus or mole, it is transformed into a cancerous melanoma.”
“Clusters of melanocytes may cause a mole, otherwise known as beauty mark, but the medical term is nevus.”
“He has no harelip, cleft palate or butterfly nevus, Captain.”
“One type is a flat, dark brown spot (a benign melanocytic nevus), another is pigmented and slightly raised (a junctional nevus), and there are also flesh-colored bumpy moles (intradermal nevi).”
“She ended up having a severely dysplastic nevus, a premelanoma, that was surgically excised.”
“An exception to this rule: certain birthmarks around the eye and on the back, called “the nevus of Ito and Ota” respectively, are more common in darker skin types and are treated with the Nd:YAG laser.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nevus’.
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phrontistery - n
from phrontistery.info
nacarat, nacelle, nacket, nacre, nacreous, naevus, naiant, nail, nainsook, naissant, nanism, nanization and 340 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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msc's Words
pugilist, threepeat, bloviate, palaver, syncreism, pastiche, eschatology, peripatetic, glossolalia, busker, nudnik, troglodyte and 213 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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free rice fun
words I discovered or was reminded of while playing FreeRice.
alameda, albumen, imperforate, asepsis, flense, asana, coccoid, nevus, lothario, alfresco, evenfall, sepulchral and 2 more...
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Cagastric Words
I do love medical history, and medical words, especially the obscure ones, but also some that are just plain fun.
cagastric, caprizant, dree, cacatory, aporrhoea, cataplasm, cicatrix, cicatrizant, surgation, theriac, vulnerary, sthenic and 41 more...
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Maladies
dhobi itch, kerion, tinea, scabies, sarcoptid, urtication, dropsy, lymphedema, papilledema, chemosis, anasarca, vapors and 55 more...
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Pathologica
carcinoma, sarcoma, dyscrasia, sclerosis, ictus, intussusception, thrombosis, embolism, sepsis, carcinomatosis, acrochordon, nevus and 58 more...
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Main List
nascent, neologism, nevus, nexus, niche, nihilistic, noetic, nymph, nomenclature
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nevus.
chained_bear "Bree leaned in beside me, and her eyes widened at sight of hte small brown blotch. It was about the size of a farthing, quite round, just above the hairline toward the back of his head, behind the left ear.
'What is it?' she asked, frowning....
'I'm fairly sure it's all right,' I assured her, after a quick inspection. 'It looks like what's called a nevus—it's something like a flat mole, usually quite harmless.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 680–681 Feb 3, 2010
oroboros A flat, black or pigmented mole or beauty mark. Like the diastema and the lisp, the nevus was considered a sign of voluptuousness and eager sexuality. Jan 11, 2007