nevus
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And while one hesitates to say “in spite of,” Ms. Naud has cultivated a healthy career in genre films with a very prominent nevus, or birthmark, under her right eye.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
Mr Rhodes was born with a large facial birthmark as a result of congenital melanocytic nevus and was left with scarring following multiple surgeries to remove it as a child.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024
“Moles are not superficial — the nevus cells are down in the dermis,” said Robert T. Brodell, a tenured professor and chair of the dermatology department at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2022
He had a nevus - a little overgrowth of cells just over the iris of his eye - how on Earth could it have been replicated, she wondered.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2018
Because his hair was shorter in the back, I could now see a nevus on his neck.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
There were nevi and keratoses, but no melanomas or carcinomas.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
Pinpointing the precise cause of Aixa’s non-malignant tumors—a severe case of a skin condition known as congenital melanocytic nevi that is present at birth—is virtually impossible.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 23, 2016
Duyse reports a case of extensive hypertrichosis of the back in a girl aged nine years; her teeth were normal; there was pigmentation of the back and numerous pigmentary nevi on the face.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
In addition to hairy nevi on the other parts of the body there was localized ichthyosis.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
According to Crocker, a still more extraordinary case, with extensive dermatolytic growths all over the back and nevi of all sizes elsewhere, is described and engraved in "Lavater's Physiognomy," 1848.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
