Lentigo: A flat dark brown spot mostly found in older people on skin exposed to light.
Lentigo: , pl. lentiginesThe singular form is lentigo, not lentigine. A benign, acquired brown macule resembling a freckle except that the border is usually regular and microscopic elongation of rete ridges is present, with increased melanocytes and melanin pigment in the basal cell layer.junction nevus. SYN: lentigo simplex. [L. fr. lens (lent-), a lentil]
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Lentigo: Small circumscribed melanoses resembling, but differing histologically from, freckles. The concept includes senile lentigo ('liver spots') and nevoid lentigo (nevus spilus, lentigo simplex) and may also occur in association with multiple congenital defects or congenital syndromes (e.g., Peutz-Jeghers syndrome).
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