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Definition of Port-wine stain
1. Noun. A flat birthmark varying from pink to purple.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Port-wine Stain
Literary usage of Port-wine stain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the Skin: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners by J. M. H. MacLeod (1921)
"port-wine stain ; Naevus flammeus ; Fr. Naevus vasculaire plan, ... The name "
port-wine stain " though applicable to a certain number of cases of plane ..."
2. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1907)
"As yet, however, there was no obvious difference in length between the corresponding
long bones of the two sides. The "port-wine" stain did not extend over ..."
3. Clinical Journal (1897)
"When, however, a large port-wine stain exists upon the face the ... This divides
the port-wine stain into little squares of about TV of ah inch in diameter. ..."
4. The Diseases of Children, Medical and Surgical by Henry Ashby, George Arthur Wright (1896)
"... mother's mark or port-wine stain. The vessels composing the new formation are
identical in structure« ith normal arteries, veins and capillaries, ..."
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