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Definition of Acanthosis

1. Noun. An abnormal but benign thickening of the prickle-cell layer of the skin (as in psoriasis).

Medical Definition of Acanthosis

1. An increase in the thickness of the stratum spinosum of the epidermis. Synonym: hyperacanthosis. Origin: acantho-+ G. -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acanthosis

acanthopodia acanthopodina acanthopodious acanthopteri acanthopterous acanthopterygian acanthopterygian acanthopterygii Acanthopterygii acanthopterygious

acanthor acanthorrhexis Acanthoscelides Acanthoscelides obtectus acanthosis (current term) acanthosis (current term) acanthosis nigricans acanthosis nigricans acanthotic acanthotic

acanthous acanthrocyte acanthrocytosis acanths Acanthuridae Acanthurus Acanthurus chirurgus acanthus acanthus acanthuses

Literary usage of Acanthosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1895)
"A CASE OF PAPILLARY AND PIGMENTARY DYSTROPHY (acanthosis ... Papillary and pigmentary dystrophy (acanthosis ..."

2. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"acanthosis NIGRICANS. Synonym.—Keratosis nigricans. Definition. ... acanthosis nigricans, showing involvement of eyelids and lips. ..."

3. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"acanthosis NIGRICANS. Synonyms.—Keratosis nigricans. ... acanthosis Nigricans following Decapsulation of the Kidneys. Case report, discussion and review of ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"acanthosis Nigricans.—At a recent meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Mr. Malcolm Morris showed a case of this exceedingly rare disease. ..."

5. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology: Designed for Students and by William Allen Pusey (1911)
"acanthosis nigricans is a disease characterized by the development of more or less symmetrically distributed areas of pigmentation and warty hypertrophy of ..."

6. Diseases of the Skin and the Eruptive Fevers by Jay Frank Schamberg (1915)
"acanthosis NIGRICANS Under the title acanthosis nigricans, Pollitzer and, at the same time, Janovsky, described a disease characterized by more or less ..."

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