Assertion: freckle | /r/HasProperty | ephelide
Facets:
value: medically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: freckles (ephelides)
text: Freckle: Also called Ephelis, is a clusters brownish spots on the skin caused by deposition of pigment, and typically appear on sun-exposed areas.
text: Lentigines are distinguished from freckles (ephelis) based on the proliferation of melanocytes.
text: A freckle, also known as an ephelis, is usually small with a diameter of 1 millimeter or more but not exceeding 5 millimeters (macules).
text: Specifically, the chapter discusses the following diseases: freckles (ephelides), the Dowling‐Degos disease, the lentiginoses, mucosal lentigines, actinic (solar) lentigo, pigmented actinic keratosis, PUVA‐induced lentigines, large cell acanthoma, Becker nevus, ink spot lentigo, melasma, Albright syndrome, the café‐au‐lait macule, and postinflammatory hyperpigmentation.
text: Brown spots and freckles on sun-exposed skin are ephelides (the plural of ephelis) and lentigines (the plural of lentigo).
text: There are two basic types of freckles -- ephelides and lentigines.
text: A freckle is also called an "ephelis".
text: Lentigines are different to freckles (called ephelis), because there are an increased number of melanin-producing cells in a lentigo, instead of the increase in melanin in a freckle.
text: This is in contrast to a freckle (ephelis), which is caused by an increased amount of melanin but no increase in the amount of melanocytes.
text: A freckle, medically known as an ephelis, is a normal skin finding, present from childhood, with no risk of malignant degeneration.