lentigon.
/lɛnˈtʌɪɡəʊ/, U.S. /lɛnˈtaɪɡoʊ/ A freckle or pimple; now usually collective for an affection of the skin (see quot. 1877).
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c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 190 Lentigines ben purgid wiþ a strong purgacioun.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lentigo, a Pimple, or Freckle; a small red Spot in the Face, or other Part, resembling a Lentil.
1842 T. H. Burgess tr. P. L. A. Cazenave & H. E. Schedel Man. Dis. Skin 244 Lentigo generally occurs in persons with a fine, white skin.
1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 336 Lentigo consists in a pigment deposit, characterized by small, pin-head or pea sized, yellowish or yellowish-brown spots, occurring for the most part about the face and the backs of the hands.
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In modern use, a small brown hyperpigmented patch of skin usually occurring on the face or hands, particularly in elderly people. lentigo maligna n. [modern Latin, translating French lentigo malin (coined by W. Dubreuilh 1894, in Annales de Dermatol. & Syphiligr. 5 1092)] a darker lentigo in which there are epidermal changes and which in time may become malignant. Frequently without article.
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melanosis1821
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age spot1890
lentigo1894
lentigo maligna1954
1894 Arch. Surg. 5 253 (heading) Lentigo-melanosis.
1934 Amer. Jrnl. Cancer 22 24 Lentigo is a brownish non-elevated lesion appearing in normal skin. It is usually dark brown, much darker than ephelids, which are more commonly known as freckles.
1936 Arch. Dermatol. & Syphilol. 33 125 Greater uniformity in the use of the term ‘lentigo’ is needed, and the term should not be used synonymously with ‘ephelis’.
1936 Arch. Dermatol. & Syphilol. 33 109 The subject of lentigo has received scant attention in the American literature, and the term has usually been employed synonymously with ‘ephelis’ or ‘freckle’.
1940 Becker & Obermayer Mod. Dermatol. & Syphilol. xviii. 292/1 Lentigo ( in contrast to ephelis, which is the common freckle) is a localized dark brownish macular discoloration, appearing all the way from early adult life to old age, varying in size from a few millimeters in diameter to a centimeter or more. The lesions are distinguished from freckles by the later age of appearance, the darker color, and the tendency to increase in size.
1954 Jrnl. Investigative Dermatol. 22 219 Lentigo maligna has been classed as melanoma in situ or as a premelanomatous lesion.
1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. xxvii. 148 Her cheeks looked hollowed and too much lentigo camouflaged her rosy rustic features.
1967 Med. Jrnl. Austral. 21 Jan. 125/1 Lentigo, a pigmented lesion composed of proliferated melanocytes, but there are no distinct nests of nævus cells. The epidermal rete ridges are often elongated.
1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) II. xx. 45/2 Spreading pigmented actinic keratoses show slight verrucous changes and can merge into a squamous cell carcinoma or into a lentigo maligna.
1988 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Mar. 704/4 The even flat brown lentigo on the face of elderly patients grows slowly over the years. However, a nodular raised portion indicates the development of more rapidly growing invasive melanoma.
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