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The polite Latin word for a mole, so your dermatologist sounds less alarming.
means A nevus is simply a mole or birthmark — a small, usually harmless cluster of pigmented skin cells.
from Straight from Latin naevus, meaning 'mole' or 'birthmark,' a word the Romans already used for the same thing on their own skin — no detours, no folklore, just a plain old term absorbed intact into medical English, where Latin tends to go to sound respectable.
- literal meaning
- latin for birthmark or mole
- plural form
- nevi, not nevuses
- abcde rule
- asymmetry, border, color, diameter, evolving flag cancer
- congenital type
- some are present at birth, not acquired