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  • noun Plural form of naevus.

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Examples

  • Benign naevi can arise at any age, so don't feel that a new one must be a risk.

    Doctor, doctor: Popping pills, plus moles and melanoma 2010

  • Having lots of pigmented naevi (the medical term for moles) does not raise your risk ofmelanoma, but, sadly, you have increased the risk by allowing yourself to get sunburnt.

    Doctor, doctor: Popping pills, plus moles and melanoma 2010

  • Attamen naevi hujus generis haud impediunt quo minus operis summam et {Greek} praedare dispositam, delectum rerum sapientissimum, argutum quoque interdum, dictionemque seu stylum historico aeque ac philosopho dignissimum, et vix a quoque alio Anglo, Humio ac Robertsono haud exceptis (praereptum?) vehementer laudemus, atque saeculo nostro de hujusmodi historia gratulemur ... ..

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

  • In this fashion, many birth marks (_naevi materni_) are produced; strawberries or other fruit, eagerly desired at times when they cannot be procured, have appeared on the child's skin; divers objects that have left a vivid impression on the imagination may have the same effect.

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

  • Hinc quotidiana infirmitatis peccata oriuntur, et optimis etiam sanctorum operibus naevi adhaerescunt: quae illis perpetuam sese coram

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * Hinc quotidiana infirmitatis peccata oriuntur, et optimis etiam sanctorum operibus naevi adhaerescunt: quae illis perpetuam sese coram Deo humiliandi, ad Christum crucifixum confugiendi, carnem magis ac magis per Spiritum precum et sancta pietatis exercitia mortificandi, et ad perfectionis metam suspirandi, materiam suggerunt; tantisper dum hoc mortis corpore soluti, cum Agno Dei in coelis regnent.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • No mother's mark is more permanent than the mental naevi and moles, and excrescences, and mutilations, that students carry with them out of the lecture-room, if once the teeming intellect which nourishes theirs has been scared from its propriety by any misshapen fantasy.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • No mother's mark is more permanent than the mental naevi and moles, and excrescences, and mutilations, that students carry with them out of the lecture-room, if once the teeming intellect which nourishes theirs has been scared from its propriety by any misshapen fantasy.

    Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Attamen naevi hujus generis haud impediunt quo minus operis summam et praedare dispositam, delectum rerum sapientissimum, argutum quoque interdum, dictionemque seu stylum historico aeque ac philosopho dignissimum, et vix a quoque alio Anglo, Humio ac

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Attamen naevi hujus generis haud impediunt quo minus operis summam et praedare dispositam, delectum rerum sapientissimum, argutum quoque interdum, dictionemque seu stylum historico aeque ac philosopho dignissimum, et vix a quoque alio Anglo, Humio ac

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Edward Gibbon 1765

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