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morphoeic

morphoeic adjective: characterised by white or yellow, morphoea-like plaques with ill-defined edges, most commonly on the face.

Adjective

morphoeic (not comparable)

  1. (typically in relation to a subtype of basal cell carcinoma) Characterised by white or yellow, morphoea-like plaques with ill-defined edges, most commonly on the face.
    • Ulcerated BCC may mimic SCC, and Bowen's disease may be misdiagnosed for the superficial and morphoeic forms.1993, W. E. De Launey, Harvey Rotstein, W. A. Land, De Launey and Land Principles and Practice of Dermatology
    • The morphoeic basal cell carcinoma does not show the characteristic and diagnostically helpful palisading pattern. The striking component of the morphoeic lesion is the stromal change, and very large areas of dense fibrous stroma may be seen with relatively small numbers of epidermal cells...1996, Rona M. MacKie, Skin Cancer, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 131

Examples of morphoeic in a sentence

  • The morphoeic basal cell carcinoma does not show the characteristic and diagnostically helpful palisading pattern.1996, Rona M. MacKie, Skin Cancer, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 131:
  • Morphoeic BCCs frequently lack clinical and dermoscopic features, and may lack pigmented structures.2011, Jonathan Bowling, Diagnostic Dermoscopy: The Illustrated Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 86:
  • The five most frequent clinical subtypes are: superficial, noduloulcerative (rodent ulcer), pigmented, cystic, morphoeic and metatypical (basosquamous).2013, Andreas Katsambas, Torello Lotti, European Handbook of Dermatological Treatments, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 69:

Forms of morphoeic

alternative formmorpheic

Origin of morphoeic

From morphoea + -ic.

Questions about morphoeic

What does morphoeic mean?
Morphoeic means characterised by white or yellow, morphoea-like plaques with ill-defined edges, most commonly on the face.
How do you use morphoeic in a sentence?
The morphoeic basal cell carcinoma does not show the characteristic and diagnostically helpful palisading pattern.
What part of speech is morphoeic?
Morphoeic is an adjective.

Words near morphoeic in the dictionary

  1. morphodynamical
  2. morphodynamically
  3. morphodynamics
  4. morphoea
  5. morphoecological
  6. morphoeic
  7. morphoelastic
  8. morphoelasticity
  9. morphoelectric
  10. morphoelectrical
  11. morphoelectronic

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