Faster access than browser!
104 relations: American Academy of Dermatology, Amputation, Analgesic, Animal, Beauty, Beauty mark, Benign tumor, Benignity, Biopsy, Birth defect, Blue nevus, Border, Buttocks, Cancer, Cauterization, Cell (biology), Cheek, Chin, Cindy Crawford, Circle, Color, Compound nevus, Congenital melanocytic nevus, Consumer, Cutaneous condition, Dermatology, Dermatoscopy, Dermis, Diabetes mellitus, Dysplasia, Dysplastic nevus, Dysplastic nevus syndrome, Electric current, Electrology, Ellipse, Epidermis, Eraser, Evil, Face, Folklore, Freckle, Frog, Gene, Good and evil, Hair, Hamartoma, Heredity, History of the world, Human nose, Hypothesis, ..., Infection, Inflammation, Insulin, Itch, Junctional nevus, Liquid nitrogen, Madonna (entertainer), Majority, Marilyn Monroe, Melanin, Melanocyte, Melanocytic tumor, Melanoma, Mnemonic, Mole map (dermatology), Moleosophy, Moletest, Mongolian spot, Ms. Pac-Man, National Cancer Institute, Neoplasm, Nerve injury, Nevus, Nevus cell, Nevus of Ito, Nevus of Ota, Pathology, Pencil, Person, Popular culture, Pregnancy, Pseudomelanoma, Research, Risk, Scalpel, Scar, Seborrheic keratosis, Senescence, Shadow, Shaving, Skin, Skin biopsy, Skin cancer, Skin tag, Solution, Spitz nevus, Sunlight, Surgical incision, Surgical suture, Telomere, Threading (epilation), Ultraviolet, Wart, Witchcraft. Expand index (54 more) »
American Academy of Dermatology
The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) is one of the largest organizations of dermatologists in the world.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and American Academy of Dermatology · See more »
Amputation
Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Amputation · See more »
Analgesic
An analgesic or painkiller is any member of the group of drugs used to achieve analgesia, relief from pain.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Analgesic · See more »
Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Animal · See more »
Beauty
Beauty is a characteristic of an animal, idea, object, person or place that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Beauty · See more »
Beauty mark
A beauty mark or beauty spot is a euphemism for a type of dark facial mole, so named because such birthmarks are sometimes considered an attractive feature.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Beauty mark · See more »
Benign tumor
A benign tumor is a mass of cells (tumor) that lacks the ability to invade neighboring tissue or metastasize.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Benign tumor · See more »
Benignity
Benignity (from Latin benignus "kind, good", itself deriving from bonus "good" and genus "origin") is any condition that is harmless in the long run.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Benignity · See more »
Biopsy
A biopsy is a medical test commonly performed by a surgeon, interventional radiologist, or an interventional cardiologist involving extraction of sample cells or tissues for examination to determine the presence or extent of a disease.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Biopsy · See more »
Birth defect
A birth defect, also known as a congenital disorder, is a condition present at birth regardless of its cause.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Birth defect · See more »
Blue nevus
Blue nevus (also known as "blue neuronevus", "dermal melanocytoma", and "nevus bleu") is a type of melanocytic nevus.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Blue nevus · See more »
Border
Borders are geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Border · See more »
Buttocks
The buttocks (singular: buttock) are two rounded portions of the anatomy, located on the posterior of the pelvic region of primates (including humans), and many other bipeds or quadrupeds, and comprise a layer of fat superimposed on the gluteus maximus and gluteus medius muscles.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Buttocks · See more »
Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Cancer · See more »
Cauterization
Cauterization (or cauterisation, or cautery) is a medical practice or technique of burning a part of a body to remove or close off a part of it.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Cauterization · See more »
Cell (biology)
The cell (from Latin cella, meaning "small room") is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Cell (biology) · See more »
Cheek
Cheeks (buccae) constitute the area of the face below the eyes and between the nose and the left or right ear.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Cheek · See more »
Chin
The chin or the mental region is the area of the face below the lower lip and including the mandibular prominence.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Chin · See more »
Cindy Crawford
Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is an American model and actress.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Cindy Crawford · See more »
Circle
A circle is a simple closed shape.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Circle · See more »
Color
Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the characteristic of human visual perception described through color categories, with names such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Color · See more »
Compound nevus
A compound nevus is a type of mole formed by groups of nevus cells found in the epidermis and dermis (the two main layers of tissue that make up the skin).
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Compound nevus · See more »
Congenital melanocytic nevus
The congenital melanocytic nevus is a type of melanocytic nevus (or mole) found in infants at birth.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Congenital melanocytic nevus · See more »
Consumer
A consumer is a person or organization that use economic services or commodities.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Consumer · See more »
Cutaneous condition
A cutaneous condition is any medical condition that affects the integumentary system—the organ system that encloses the body and includes skin, hair, nails, and related muscle and glands.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Cutaneous condition · See more »
Dermatology
Dermatology (from ancient Greek δέρμα, derma which means skin and λογία, logia) is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin, nails, hair and its diseases.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Dermatology · See more »
Dermatoscopy
Dermatoscopy (also known as dermoscopy or epiluminescence microscopy) is the examination of with a 'dermatoscope'.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Dermatoscopy · See more »
Dermis
The dermis or corium is a layer of skin between the epidermis (with which it makes up the cutis) and subcutaneous tissues, that primarily consists of dense irregular connective tissue and cushions the body from stress and strain.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Dermis · See more »
Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Diabetes mellitus · See more »
Dysplasia
Dysplasia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- dys-, "bad" or "difficult" and πλάσις plasis, "formation") is a term used in pathology to refer to an abnormality of development or an epithelial anomaly of growth and differentiation (epithelial dysplasia).
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Dysplasia · See more »
Dysplastic nevus
A dysplastic nevus or atypical mole is a nevus (mole) whose appearance is different from that of common moles.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Dysplastic nevus · See more »
Dysplastic nevus syndrome
Dysplastic nevus syndrome (also known as "atypical mole syndrome (AMS)", "familial atypical multiple mole–melanoma (FAMMM) syndrome", "familial melanoma syndrome", and "B-K mole syndrome") is a cutaneous condition described in certain families, and characterized by unusual nevi and multiple inherited melanomas.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Dysplastic nevus syndrome · See more »
Electric current
An electric current is a flow of electric charge.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Electric current · See more »
Electrology
Electrology is the practice of electrical hair removal to permanently remove human hair from the body.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Electrology · See more »
Ellipse
In mathematics, an ellipse is a curve in a plane surrounding two focal points such that the sum of the distances to the two focal points is constant for every point on the curve.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Ellipse · See more »
Epidermis
The epidermis is the outer layer of the three layers that make up the skin, the inner layers being the dermis and hypodermis.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Epidermis · See more »
Eraser
An eraser, (also called a rubber outside the United States, from the material first used) is an article of stationery that is used for removing writing from paper or skin.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Eraser · See more »
Evil
Evil, in a colloquial sense, is the opposite of good, the word being an efficient substitute for the more precise but religion-associated word "wickedness." As defined in philosophy it is the name for the psychology and instinct of individuals which selfishly but often necessarily defends the personal boundary against deadly attacks and serious threats.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Evil · See more »
Face
The face is a central body region of sense and is also very central in the expression of emotion among humans and among numerous other species.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Face · See more »
Folklore
Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Folklore · See more »
Freckle
Freckles are clusters of concentrated melaninized cells which are most easily visible on people with a fair complexion.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Freckle · See more »
Frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (Ancient Greek ἀν-, without + οὐρά, tail).
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Frog · See more »
Gene
In biology, a gene is a sequence of DNA or RNA that codes for a molecule that has a function.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Gene · See more »
Good and evil
In religion, ethics, philosophy, and psychology "good and evil" is a very common dichotomy.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Good and evil · See more »
Hair
Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Hair · See more »
Hamartoma
A hamartoma is a mostly benign, focal malformation that resembles a neoplasm in the tissue of its origin.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Hamartoma · See more »
Heredity
Heredity is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Heredity · See more »
History of the world
The history of the world is the history of humanity (or human history), as determined from archaeology, anthropology, genetics, linguistics, and other disciplines; and, for periods since the invention of writing, from recorded history and from secondary sources and studies.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and History of the world · See more »
Human nose
The human nose is the protruding part of the face that bears the nostrils.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Human nose · See more »
Hypothesis
A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Hypothesis · See more »
Infection
Infection is the invasion of an organism's body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agents and the toxins they produce.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Infection · See more »
Inflammation
Inflammation (from inflammatio) is part of the complex biological response of body tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants, and is a protective response involving immune cells, blood vessels, and molecular mediators.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Inflammation · See more »
Insulin
Insulin (from Latin insula, island) is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets; it is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Insulin · See more »
Itch
Itch (also known as pruritus) is a sensation that causes the desire or reflex to scratch.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Itch · See more »
Junctional nevus
A junctional nevus is a mole found in the junction (border) between the epidermis and dermis layers of the skin.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Junctional nevus · See more »
Liquid nitrogen
Liquid nitrogen is nitrogen in a liquid state at an extremely low temperature.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Liquid nitrogen · See more »
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Madonna (entertainer) · See more »
Majority
A majority is the greater part, or more than half, of the total.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Majority · See more »
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Marilyn Monroe · See more »
Melanin
Melanin (from μέλας melas, "black, dark") is a broad term for a group of natural pigments found in most organisms.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Melanin · See more »
Melanocyte
Melanocytes are melanin-producing neural crest-derived cells located in the bottom layer (the stratum basale) of the skin's epidermis, the middle layer of the eye (the uvea), the inner ear, vaginal epithelium, meninges, bones, and heart.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Melanocyte · See more »
Melanocytic tumor
Melanocytic tumors are tumours developed from melanocytes.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Melanocytic tumor · See more »
Melanoma
Melanoma, also known as malignant melanoma, is a type of cancer that develops from the pigment-containing cells known as melanocytes.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Melanoma · See more »
Mnemonic
A mnemonic (the first "m" is silent) device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering) in the human memory.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Mnemonic · See more »
Mole map (dermatology)
In dermatology, a mole map is a medical record which records an image and the location of lesions and/or moles, or dark spots on the human body.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Mole map (dermatology) · See more »
Moleosophy
Moleosophy or moleomancy is a technique of divination and fortune telling based upon the observation and interpretation of bodily marks — primarily those of the melanocytic nevus condition (i.e. moles).
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Moleosophy · See more »
Moletest
Moletest is a UK-based company founded in September 2010.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Moletest · See more »
Mongolian spot
Mongolian spot (congenital dermal melanocytosis) is a benign, flat, congenital birthmark, with wavy borders and an irregular shape.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Mongolian spot · See more »
Ms. Pac-Man
Ms.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Ms. Pac-Man · See more »
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and National Cancer Institute · See more »
Neoplasm
Neoplasia is a type of abnormal and excessive growth of tissue.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Neoplasm · See more »
Nerve injury
Nerve injury is injury to nervous tissue.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Nerve injury · See more »
Nevus
Nevus (or nevi if multiple) is a nonspecific medical term for a visible, circumscribed, chronic lesion of the skin or mucosa.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Nevus · See more »
Nevus cell
Nevus cells are a variant of melanocytes.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Nevus cell · See more »
Nevus of Ito
Nevus of Ito (also known as "Nevus fuscoceruleus acromiodeltoideus") is a skin condition with similar features to the Nevus of Ota, but occurring in a different distribution.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Nevus of Ito · See more »
Nevus of Ota
Nevus of Ota (also known as "congenital melanosis bulbi", "nevus fuscoceruleus ophthalmomaxillaris", "oculodermal melanocytosis", and "oculomucodermal melanocytosis") is a blue hyperpigmentation that occurs on the face.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Nevus of Ota · See more »
Pathology
Pathology (from the Ancient Greek roots of pathos (πάθος), meaning "experience" or "suffering" and -logia (-λογία), "study of") is a significant field in modern medical diagnosis and medical research, concerned mainly with the causal study of disease, whether caused by pathogens or non-infectious physiological disorder.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Pathology · See more »
Pencil
A pencil is a writing implement or art medium constructed of a narrow, solid pigment core inside a protective casing which prevents the core from being broken and/or from leaving marks on the user’s hand during use.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Pencil · See more »
Person
A person is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Person · See more »
Popular culture
Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Popular culture · See more »
Pregnancy
Pregnancy, also known as gestation, is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside a woman.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Pregnancy · See more »
Pseudomelanoma
Pseudomelanoma (also known as a "recurrent melanocytic nevus", and "recurrent nevus") is a cutaneous condition in which melantic skin lesions clinically resemble a superficial spreading melanoma at the site of a recent shave removal of a melanocytic nevus.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Pseudomelanoma · See more »
Research
Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Research · See more »
Risk
Risk is the potential of gaining or losing something of value.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Risk · See more »
Scalpel
A scalpel, or lancet, is a small and extremely sharp bladed instrument used for surgery, anatomical dissection, podiatry and various arts and crafts (called a hobby knife).
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Scalpel · See more »
Scar
A scar is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Scar · See more »
Seborrheic keratosis
A seborrheic keratosis, also known as seborrheic verruca, basal cell papilloma, or a senile wart,Freedberg, et al.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Seborrheic keratosis · See more »
Senescence
Senescence or biological ageing is the gradual deterioration of function characteristic of most complex lifeforms, arguably found in all biological kingdoms, that on the level of the organism increases mortality after maturation.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Senescence · See more »
Shadow
A shadow is a dark area where light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Shadow · See more »
Shaving
Shaving is the removal of hair, by using a razor or any other kind of bladed implement, to slice it down—to the level of the skin or otherwise.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Shaving · See more »
Skin
Skin is the soft outer tissue covering vertebrates.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Skin · See more »
Skin biopsy
Skin biopsy is a biopsy technique in which a skin lesion is removed to be sent to a pathologist to render a microscopic diagnosis.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Skin biopsy · See more »
Skin cancer
Skin cancers are cancers that arise from the skin.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Skin cancer · See more »
Skin tag
A skin tag, or acrochordon (pl. acrochorda), is a small benign tumor that forms primarily in areas where the skin forms creases, such as the neck, armpit and groin.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Skin tag · See more »
Solution
In chemistry, a solution is a special type of homogeneous mixture composed of two or more substances.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Solution · See more »
Spitz nevus
A Spitz nevus (also known as an epithelioid and spindle-cell nevus, benign juvenile melanoma, and "Spitz's juvenile melanoma") is a benign melanocytic nevus, a type of skin lesion, affecting the epidermis and dermis.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Spitz nevus · See more »
Sunlight
Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Sunlight · See more »
Surgical incision
In surgery, a surgical incision is a cut made through the skin and soft tissue to facilitate an operation or procedure.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Surgical incision · See more »
Surgical suture
Surgical suture is a medical device used to hold body tissues together after an injury or surgery.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Surgical suture · See more »
Telomere
A telomere is a region of repetitive nucleotide sequences at each end of a chromosome, which protects the end of the chromosome from deterioration or from fusion with neighboring chromosomes.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Telomere · See more »
Threading (epilation)
Threading is a method of hair removal originating in Asia.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Threading (epilation) · See more »
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm, shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Ultraviolet · See more »
Wart
Warts are typically small, rough, and hard growths that are similar in color to the rest of the skin.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Wart · See more »
Witchcraft
Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups.
New!!: Melanocytic nevus and Witchcraft · See more »
Redirects here:
Acquired melanocytic nevus, Acquired nevus, Banal nevi, Electrocautery (Dermatology), Electrocautery (Mole Removal), Facial mole, Melanocytic naevi, Melanocytic naevus, Melanocytic nevi, Melanotic nevi, Melanotic nevus, Mole (anatomy), Mole (skin marking, Mole (skin), Mole removal, Moles and dysplastic nevi, Nevocytic nevi, Senescence and melanocytic nevi, Skin mole.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanocytic_nevus
